The Cuckoo's Calling

"A witty twisty brilliant mystery! 👏 I read this like 16 years ago guys and it only take me looking at the back cover to remember the story and details! Brilliant eh! Cheers "

"The Cuckoo’s Calling was suggested to me by a coworker. I had never read a mystery novel before, so I had my reservations, however, now having read this story, I cannot wait to read more! This novel follows a private detective by the name of Cormoran Strike who is investigating the murder of Lula Landry, a young multimillionaire actress. Lula suffered from poor mental health and an unstable relationship with her adoptive family and her famous boyfriend. Lula’s death was quickly dismissed as a suicide; however, her brother refuses to accept that Lula jumped from the top of her flat, but that she was pushed. Strike was injured when he did his tour in Afghanistan, but went into detective work after having his leg blown off in a landmine. Recently thrown out by his fiancé, Strike is living in his office at his firm, barely able to make ends meet. Lula’s brother comes to Strike after recognizing his name as his late brothers’ childhood best friend. Strike takes on the case, even though he too suspects Lula to have jumped, since he is being compensated enough to help him get back onto his feet. While the writing style can be very slow and detailed, lacking much action until later in the story, the character development and interactions do prove to be very important once you hit the turning point in the story. While the majority of the story is dialogue rather than big discoveries, it leaves you trying to fill in between the lines in order to solve the mystery yourself. Once you get to the final chapters of the novel, you will be unable to put the book down. Discovery after discovery begins to unravel and a huge bombshell is discovered, one I never saw coming. Once you figure out Strike’s number one suspect, you will question all the facts you have been reading, trying to figure where you had gone wrong. I highly suggest this book to anyone wanting to give the genre a try. You too might come out of reading this book with a new-found love."

"#thriller Like the evolving relationship between Stryke and Robin"

"Really good!!"

"JKR May be a garbage human, but damn she can write. I read the ink black heart before getting into the rest of the series, and like the one I read before, I loved this one. Glad to have decided to start from 1 as it gave some history on robin and strike’s relationship as well as his original falling out with Charlotte. The story telling of cuckoo’s calling is fast paced and well fleshed out. The characters have well developed personalities and the mystery was constant through the book ( I am 0 for 2 in trying to guess who the killers have been so far). Looking forward to the next book. "

"All his(actually written by JK Rowling) books are great. "

"Well written, but a bit long in middle. It ended very well though and it was nice to read something new by Rowling. Not that I don't enjoy rereading Harry Potter"

"I was entertained - JKR doesn't disappoint. The characters are lovingly crafted and the book is cleverly written. It's a gritty London detective story and while it's no literary masterpiece, The Cuckoo's Calling is a page-turning mystery and it kept me guessing until the end. The audiobook narration is excellent as well. I'm looking forward to seeing more of Cormoran and Robin."

"To me this was an entertaining little mystery!"

"Ehhh, could have been better!!"