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Bookish Monday ~ The Cuckoo's Calling

Author: Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) Pages: 455 (hardcover) Published Date: April 30th, 2013 Genre: Mystery, crime, adult Series: Yes, book 1 of the Cormoran Strike series Price: $29 CAD Format: Purchased This book is a mystery novel focused on to adults by JKR under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. The story revolves around a girl named Lula Landry, who has been dead for a few months. The police had pushed the case away as suicide as she had mental problems which she faced. Cormoran Strike is an ex-military who is an amputee and by the looks of it is not the richest person. He is working as a private detective now and trying to solve the very little crimes he has to investigate. He also just breaks up with his longtime girlfriend and is forced to live elsewhere. John Bristow, a lawyer, approaches Cormoran on his supermodel sister who he believes did not suicide but was indeed murdered. This case leads Cormoran to a widely different world in which he