Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery
introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's
suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first
novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series
C.B. Strike. 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, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with
his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office. Then John Bristow
walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary
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.