Yesterday I completed 'The Cuckoo's Calling' by J.K Rowling writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. I bought the book a week earlier, after J.K Rowling's involvement in the novel was confirmed. As a child I have been a huge fan of Harry Potter series and was eager to read this book. I have not read Rowling's other work 'The Casual Vacancy' so I will not compare Cuckoo's Calling to it.
First of all its a hard boiled detective novel, so one needs to be very thorough in order to appreciate the story, the characters and the pace of the book. The book introduces a private detective Cormoran Strike, the protagonist to the readers who is a var veteran, wounded both physically and psychologically. There has been a death of a famous supermodel, who jumps out from her balcony in the middle of a freezing night. It is believed to be suicide but the model's brother intercepts the death as a killing. This is where Strike comes in.
The investigation process's description is wonderful and sucks the reader in from the very beginning. The character development is excellent and so are their level of details. The ending is unpredictable yet effective.
One falls in love with Strike's character as the story progresses; sympathizing with him, thinking like him and even envying him sometimes. All in all its a very good read, a definite page turner and I recommend it not only to all crime fiction fans but also to normal fiction ones.
