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A famosa autora inglesa da série Harry Potter publicou um policial sob o pseudónimo Robert Galbraith em Abril, em Inglaterra. O livro com o título The Cuckoo's Calling conta a
história de Cormoran Strike, um veterano da guerra do Afeganistão que se
torna detective privado e tenta desvendar o caso do suicídio de um
modelo feminino. A autora queria saber como seria a recepção de um livro seu sem a pressão da fama e expectativa em relação ao que estava a fazer e parece que tanto os leitores como a crítica aprovaram o livro. O livro vendeu cerca de 1500 exemplares desde Abril, mas assim que se descobriu que Robert Galbraith era J. K. Rowling, as vendas dispararam.
The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)
A brilliant debut
mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a
supermodel's suicide.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, and creditors are calling. He has also just
broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then
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 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.
