Mainstream-Mini Review: Cuckoo's Calling By Robert Galbraith

Cuckoo's Calling 

Cormoran Strike #1

By Robert Galbraith (AKA JK Rowling)

Published April 2013 By Hachette Book Group

A brilliant debut 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, thelegendary 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 ~

I picked this up out of sheer curiosity. I mean it's JK for goodness sakes. But JK as an adult mystery writer? I'm still not sure. On one hand these new writing attempts of hers seem forced to me, a bit too British, and the POV changes drive me nuts. But on the other, the plot was decent and I enjoyed the characters. I appreciate what she's trying to do. Branching out into the adult world, kind of like a type casted actor would. But I definitely struggled to reach the end. I hope JK is able to create a new exciting world that I can get into, but this is not it for me. I would recommend giving this one a try, and if you're trying to decide between Cuckoos Calling and Casual Vacancy, definitely pick this one. It is, in the very least, entertaining. If you dig mystery, you'll like it.