Published
by Sphere, 20 October 2015. ISBN: 978-0-7515-6227-9 (HB)
21
April 2016. ISBN 078-0-7515-6359-7 (PB)
This is strong stuff from the very beginning. A severed female leg is delivered by courier
to Robin, Cormoran Strike's secretary.
She has been using the office for parcels and therefore did not suspect
anything amiss. Robin's wedding is
planned for several months ahead so she is getting wedding materials by
mail.
Cormoran Strike is a PI and Robin has become
involved in assisting with his investigations.
The business was doing well but the publicity surrounding the arrival of
the leg has discouraged many clients.
This may well have been an intended consequence for the perpetrator of
the atrocity.
Cormoran
has several candidates in mind for this perpetrator and gradually we learn the
back stories of his involvements with them and their horrific, violent
crimes. He and Robin are busy trying to
find these men and then to see if they may have committed the crime. The work to get identification of the victim
adds, of course, to the complications of the story.
The
story moves through the various areas of action including the preparations for
Robin's wedding weaving together with great skill the disparate elements. Eventually the twists and turns produce a
series of explosive events.
A
very exciting if viscerally gruesome read!
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Reviewer: Jennifer S. Palmer
This
is the third of Robert Galbraith's crime tales about Cormoran Strike and Robin.
Robert
Galbraith is a
pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual
Vacancy.
Jennifer Palmer Throughout my reading life crime fiction has been
a constant interest; I really enjoyed my 15 years as an expatriate in the Far
East, the Netherlands &
the USA
but occasionally the solace of closing my door to the outside world and sitting
reading was highly therapeutic. I now lecture to adults on historical topics
including Famous Historical Mysteries.
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