Cormoran Strike – GREAT BRITISH BOOK CLUB

The Cuckoo's Calling

Cormoran Strike is a pitiful case, left one-legged after a landmine accident in Afghanistan and barely scraping by as a private investigator. He's down to one client, creditors are calling he's just broken up with his longtime girlfriend, and he's living in his office. Oh, and he forgot to cancel the temp service so he'll have to pay for another week of help.

When all seems lost, the wealthy John Bristow walks in with an amazing story: His adoptive sister, supermodel Lula Landry, died recently. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

This novel is the first in the Cormoran Strike series under JK Rowling's pseudonym, Robert Galbraith.

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The Silkworm

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days – something he's done many times in the past – and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.

Unfortunately, as Strike investigates, he discovers that Quine's disappearance is part of something much more sinister. The novelist has just completed a manuscript full of nasty commentary on many of his publishing industry contemporaries AND those in his personal life.

If the novel gets published, it would ruin lives and reputations – meaning that almost everyone he knows has a motive to kill him. When Quine is found brutally murdered, Strike will have to race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer unlike any he's encountered before.

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Career of Evil

When Robin Ellacott opens an unexpected delivery, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but just as alarmed. He suspects that four people from his past could be responsible — and any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike has effectively eliminated, he and Robin take matters into their own hands and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men.

But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them.

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Troubled Blood

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough — who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.

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British Book Database

The Cuckoo's Calling

The Silkworm

Career of Evil

Troubled Blood