In the epic fifth installment in this "compulsively readable" ( People ) series, Galbraith's "irresistible hero and heroine" ( USA Today ) take on the decades-old cold case of a missing doctor, one which may be their grisliest yet. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough--who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But ...
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In the epic fifth installment in this "compulsively readable" ( People ) series, Galbraith's "irresistible hero and heroine" ( USA Today ) take on the decades-old cold case of a missing doctor, one which may be their grisliest yet. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough--who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .
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JK Rowling writes this mystery series under a pseudonym and while mysteries ordinarily run to 300-or-so pages, this could be a doorstop for a heavy bank door. Runs over 800 pages. But she pulls it off. Strike and his partner, Robin, are wonderfully drawn and we care about them as much as the mystery.
