A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodels suicideAfter 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 and creditors are calling He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his officeThen John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story His sister thelegendary 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 manYou may think you know detectives but youve never met one quite like Strike You may think you know about the wealthy and famous but youve never seen them under an investigation like thisIntroducing Cormoran Strike this is the acclaimed first crime novel by JK Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.