Cormoran Strike · Book 1
The Cuckoo's Calling
- Published
- 4 April 2013
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN-13
- 9781471250651
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Cuckoo's Calling opens the Cormoran Strike series, first published in 2013. It introduces the one-legged Afghanistan veteran turned private detective and his temp secretary, Robin Ellacott, whose talent for surveillance and deduction Strike doesn't yet fully recognize. The Silkworm follows it in the series.
Its place in Cormoran Strike
The Cuckoo's Calling is book 1 in the Cormoran Strike series. It is followed by The Silkworm. See the full Cormoran Strike reading order.
Cormoran Strike is a one-legged Afghanistan veteran turned private detective, working London's less glamorous end of the trade out of a cramped Denmark Street office, when his temp secretary Robin Ellacott turns out to have a genuine gift for surveillance and deduction. Written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the series is old-fashioned detective fiction at heart — proper puzzle-box mysteries with red herrings, closed suspect lists and a satisfying reveal — dressed in very contemporary…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9789573330455
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781471250651