The Cuckoo's Calling
A Cormoran Strike Novel: Book #1
By Robert Galbraith & J. K. Rowling
Narrated by Robert Glenister / 15 hours 54 minutes
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.
After losing his leg to a landmine 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, 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.
Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Add to Your Wish List
Almost ready!
In order to save books to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log In Create Account
Gift Audiobook Memberships
You pick the duration—1, 3, 6, or 12 months—they pick the audiobooks. Buying gifts from your local bookstore has never been so easy.
Gift Now
“Every time I put this book down, I looked forward to reading more. Galbraith writes at a gentle pace, the pages rich with description and with characters that leap out of them. I loved it. He is a major new talent.”
Peter James, Dead Man's Grip
“Robert Galbraith has written a highly entertaining book. . . . Even better, he has introduced an appealing protagonist in Strike, who’s sure to be the star of many sequels to come. . . . Its narrative moves forward with propulsive suspense. More important, Strike and his now-permanent assistant, Robin (playing Nora to his Nick, Salander to his Blomkvist), have become a team—a team whose further adventures the reader cannot help eagerly awaiting.”
Michiko Kakutani
Reviews
“In a rare feat, Galbraith combines a complex and compelling sleuth and an equally well-formed and unlikely assistant with a baffling crime. . . Readers will hope to see a lot more of this memorable sleuthing team”
Publishers Weekly
“[Rowling's] literary gift is on display in this work. She crafts an entertaining story [and] comes up with an ending that I'll admit I was surprised by. . . . A fun read, with a main character you can care about and one you'll want to see again in other adventures.”
The Washington Post
“A scintillating debut novel . . . Galbraith delivers sparkling dialogue and a convincing portrayal of the emptiness of wealth and glamour.”
The Times
About the Author
Robert Galbraith is the pseudonym used by J. K. Rowling, the British novelist best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. Rowling has written three books for adult readers, The Casual Vacancy and—under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith—the crime fiction novels The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm.
Related Reading
A Murder is Solved, a Sleuth is Born
New York Times
The Only Surprise in Rowling's Cuckoo's Calling is the Author
NPR
Audiobooks of the Month: Masked Mystery
Libro.fm Blog
Featured In
A Cormoran Strike Novel Series
The Cuckoo's Calling
By: Robert Galbraith & J. K. Rowling
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read More »
The Silkworm
By: Robert Galbraith
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done... Read More »
Career of Evil
By: Robert Galbraith
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Length: 17 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.
Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible--and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained... Read More »
Lethal White
By: Robert Galbraith
Narrated by: Robert Glenister
Length: 22 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"Rowling's wizardry as a writer is on fulsome display" (USA Today) in this #1 New York Times bestseller from the international bestselling author Robert Galbraith.
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply... Read More »
Get Updates from Libro.fm
Sign up for audiobook recommendations and 20% off your first purchase.