Cormoran Strike is a private detective with baggage. He is a former military investigator who lost his right leg below the knee in an IED attack in Afghanistan. His father is a famous singer who he's only seen twice. He's also trying to get over a 16 year relationship with the beautiful, but very flawed Charlotte.
He has a fledgling detective agency that is going well, thanks to the notoriety of his solving the case detailed in the first book in the series "The Cuckoos Calling." He's working his tail off, trying to pay off a loan he reluctantly took from his deadbeat famous dad. He has an excellent assistant in Robin, who began as a temporary secretary in book one and is now on full-time and interested in getting more involved in detecting.
Cormoran is hired to look for a missing author, Owen Quine, by his wife. Quine's newly finished but unpublished book has ticked off a lot of people. Cormoran finds Quine, but the search turns into a messy murder investigation.
Galbraith/Rowling is a terrific storyteller and author and I hope he/she keeps giving us more Cormoran Strike books.
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