The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Synopsis
A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. 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. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
My Review
J.K Rowling is already a super writer and needs no intro, however, I will review this book not on the basis that the author wrote Harry Potter because I loved those.
This book has a great mystery story no doubt, but I felt so left out of the entire book, I mean the starting is pretty good , scenes with the secretary Robin are funny and interesting, however, I would have really liked if there was some kind of information given on how the Detective's mind was working, if the story of the murderer was revealed through a story and not just in a narrative from the detective, it would have been more interesting.
I like reading books more than watching their respective movies because, in a book you can actually feel and see each character, read their thoughts and see how they work as a human, but in movies you just cannot have that kind of insight into a character, so I guess that's where this book lets me down.
I read The Silkworm, before this one and I was thinking maybe there is something I didn't get but I guess J K writes a mystery book this way and although the story was pretty good but the way it's presented is not very interesting.
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