East County San Diego Ladies Book Club discussion

BOOK OF THE MONTH


MONTH: October 2013
TITLE: The Cuckoo's Calling
SERIES: Comoran Strike, Book One
AUTHOR: Robert Galbraith (AKA J.K. Rowling)
GENRE: Fiction, Mystery, Crime
PAGES: 455
RELEASE DATE: April 30th, 2013
AVG RATING: 3.93 / 5.00 (23,784 votes)
DESCRIPTION:
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.

Has anyone started reading this yet? I'm about 25% through and enjoying it so far, but I feel like I'm still waiting for something big to happen.

I haven't started it yet :( I hope to soon though.

I did an I feel the same way Veronica :/

Veronica wrote: "Has anyone started reading this yet? I'm about 25% through and enjoying it so far, but I feel like I'm still waiting for something big to happen."

I haven't started yet either and like Kristina I have my fingers crossed that I can start it really soon!!!

I am so sad that I haven't had barely any time to read this month. It's SO not like me and I am probably not even going to be able to START this book before our meeting on Monday. So disappointed in myself!!!

I'm only halfway through! I'm enjoying it, but not so much that I want to spend every waking moment reading it.

Veronica wrote: "I'm only halfway through! I'm enjoying it, but not so much that I want to spend every waking moment reading it."

I am only about 25% through so far and like you guys had posted previously I am anxiously waiting for something beg to happen!!! I am hoping that I will make it through the book by Monday as well :)

I haven't had much time reading either :( I'm so busy . I'm officially letting go of my apartment and moving to La Mesa.

LA as in Los Angeles? Or Louisiana?

LOL, Veronica --- she wrote La Mesa :)

♡ Kristina wrote: "LOL, Veronica --- she wrote La Mesa :)"

OMG! How did I miss mesa?! Haha! Must have been the way it was formatted on my phone.

Congrats! Your fiancé must be very happy :)

Finally finished this book. It read a lot like a classic: the first three quarters are slow going, but completely necessary. The last 25-30% of the book was very fast paced as all the pieces came together. Overall, I think I enjoyed it... lol.

I didn't finish the book :/ Maybe ill pick it up later