This is the first
book that J K Rolling wrote under her new pseudonym and she had difficulty in
getting it accepted, but she finally found a publisher willing to print the
book and it was only later after the book had been published that somebody let
out the secret that this was in fact J K Rolling who wrote it. I expect she
wanted to prove that she could still get a book published without letting on
who she was.
Anyway, it is hard
to think that she did have a problem getting her book accepted for publication
because it is an excellent novel.
It is here that we
meet her new hero, a private detective who has the strange name of Cormoran
Strike. He has recently been invalided out of the army after having his leg
blown off in Afghanistan. He is quite a character, a large bloke still
suffering from his injury and also now suffering the loss of his Fiancé
It is in this
state that he meets Robin, a temp secretary who he has engaged from a firm
called Temporary Solutions.
Strike only has a
small, two-roomed office on the second floor of an old building and as he is
broke and homeless, having been thrown out by his ex- girlfriend, has to sleep
on a camp bed in his office.
Things look up
when he gets a job investigating the death of a famous young model, Lula who
had allegedly fallen to her death from the balcony of her luxury apartment. Her
brother thinks she was murdered, despite the police classing it as suicide, and
he employs Strike to investigate.
Strike takes on
the case and soon realises what a tremendous asset Robin is to the
investigation and she willingly agrees to stay on after her initial two week
period.
I thoroughly
enjoyed the book and appreciated the way the two characters gradually come to
work together on the case. The story bowls along with lots of questioning of
everyone involved until it reaches a dramatic conclusion.
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