The Cuckoo's Calling
by J. K. Rowling
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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.
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private investigators, murder, investigation, veterans, Afghan War, fiction, Cormoran Strike, crime, London, England, mystery, detective, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2013-08-04, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Private investigators, fiction, Crime, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Veterans, fiction, Private investigators, Fiction, Afghan War, 2001-, Veterans, Murder, InvestigationTimes
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The Cuckoo's Calling: Cormoran Strike Book 1
Aug 10, 2017, Sphere
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L'Appel du coucou [ The cuckoo's Calling ]
Nov 06, 2013, French and European Publications Inc, Grasset
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The Cuckoo's Calling
2013, Mulholland Books, Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company
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The Cuckoo's Calling
April 30, 2013, Mulholland Books
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"The buzz in the street was like the humming of flies."
Edition Notes
First North American Edition: April 2013; 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
$26.00; C$29.00
First printing of this (Mulholland Books) edition appears to have been only 10,000 copies per a New York Post business story from July 17, 2013.
First printing dustjackets have a fictional biography of the author on the back flap. Second printing and beyond remove the biography and note that Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling. They also have an additional note at the bottom of the front flap about Rowling.
The second printing copies were on higher-grade paper and are about 1/2-centimeter thinner and 23 grams heavier.
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