When the scandalously famous top model dies in a fatal fall from the snowy balcony of her penthouse, everyone decides it was suicide. But the girl’s brother can’t accept this conclusion and turns to a private investigator named Cormoran Strike. Strike has been through war; he’s been physically and mentally damaged—his life is running off the rails. Now he is counting on closing at least the financial gap, but the investigation turns into a cunning trap.
Delving deeper into the tangled story of the young star, Strike uncovers the hidden, dark underside of events—and moves himself closer to deadly danger… A gripping, tightly crafted plot unfolds against the backdrop of London, from the quiet streets of respectable Mayfair to the shabby pubs of East End and the perpetually bubbling Soho. "The Cuckoo’s Calling" is an outstanding and well-deserved popular novel in which Cormoran Strike appears for the first time. It is also J. K. Rowling’s first work in the crime genre, published under the name Robert Galbraith.