[book_talk] book review--Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling

From: "Bonnie L. Sherrell" <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:06:43 -0800

_The Cuckoo's Calling_
by Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling
read by Robert Glenister

Robin's new assignment as a temporary secretary doesn't start
particularly well.  As she approaches the office building where she's
to work for the next fortnight she is almost bowled over in the doorway
by a strikingly beautiful woman who's exiting the building in high
dudgeon.  Then, as she approaches the floor where her assignment is
sending her, a huge man emerges from the door and almost sends her back
downwards again, and his means of stopping her fall, while effective,
is both embarrassing and extremely painful.

So Robin meets Cormoran Strike, formerly an investigator for the
British Armed Forces and now an apparent failure as a private
investigator in civilian life.  Strike's manipulative girlfriend has
just dumped him--again, and he's determined not to go back to her.  He
can't really afford a secretary, but he's made a commitment to the
temporary agency and he can hardly tell a young woman he's just
manhandled to save from a fall he almost set her to experience that he
can't really use her after all.

So Robin finds herself temporarily employed in the one type of agency
she'd always secretly wanted to work in.  

It would appear she brings good luck as well as an unprecedented level
of organization and efficiency to the place, particularly when John
Bristow appears to commission Strike to investigate the death of his
adopted sister, supermodel Lula Landry.  Certainly the hefty advance he
hands the investigator comes in especially handy at a time when
Strike's creditors are making things extremely hard for him.

But what does the illegitimate son of an aging rock star and a
super-groupie know about the world of highly successful models and
lawyers?  Well, Strike and Robin are about to find out just what that
world is like, and the kind of secrets that lurk behind the glamor and
glitz.

For it does appear that Lula didn't fall to her death by accident or to
commit suicide.  And it appears that the killer is willing to kill
again to reach his own agenda, and has established a pattern of causing
falls from high places.


A most fascinating book by a writer who has proved herself successful
at writing in a number of different genres.  The reader was good, but I
do think he might have differentiated the accents perhaps a bit more. 
Definitely a book I'll be recommending highly!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large

"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise 
cannot see all ends." LOTR

"Don't go where I can't follow."

[book_talk] book review--Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling

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