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. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
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Robert Galbraith es el seudónimo utilizado por la escritora británica J.K. Rowling para publicar novelas de misterio protagonizadas por el detective privado Cormoran Strike. El nombre apareció por primera vez en 2013 con la publicación de El canto del cuco, y aunque inicialmente se mantuvo en secreto, su verdadera identidad fue revelada poco después. Bajo este alias, Rowling ha desarrollado una serie de libros que combinan el género policial con el drama psicológico, alejándose del estilo fantástico que la hizo famosa con Harry Potter. La saga ha sido bien recibida por la crítica y adaptada a la televisión por la BBC.
