The Cuckoo's Calling (urspr publ 2013; utgåvan 2014)

The author's writing is too insightful and wonderfully descriptive to label this as what other reviewers are calling a run of the mill mystery. That being said, I was expecting to be surprised by the ending and unfortunately I wasn't. I still enjoyed this book and look forward to more by JK Rowling/Robert Galbraith.

Some quotable quote favorites:

“The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“You're like everyone else, Strike; you want your civil liberties when you've told the missus you're at the office and you're at a lap-dancing club, but you want twenty-four-hour surveillance on your house when someone's trying to force your bathroom window open. Can't have it both ways.”
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Genialer Krimi. Sehr spannend, ich konnte das Buch kaum weglegen. Wunderbare Charaktere, detailliert gezeichnet, sehr liebenswert. Keine logischen Fehler, völlig undurchschaubare Story – vielleicht das erste Mal bei einem Krimi, dass ich bis zum Ende komplett auf der falschen Fährte war. Sehr gute Sprache.
Der einzige Vorwurf, den man Rowling machen kann, ist, dass Strikes Geheimniskrämerei nicht sehr überzeugend ist. Aber natürlich ist das auch nötig, um den wahren Mörder vor dem Leser geheim zu halten.
Der beste Krimi, den ich seit langem gelesen habe. ( )

This was an okay book. Not very special, in fact it was quite boring, no suspense, not much action or things that make a book great, a pageturner. It went on and on and on and that was it.
I finished it because I dislike not finishing a book, except when it's really horrible.

I'm not sure if I'll listen to the next book in the series and then read the third. I'm not really interested enough in the characters that walk around in the novel. ( ( )

I really enjoyed this. I enjoyed the word crafting - that sort of thing always pleases me. I found I went back and forth a little to check details in the story, and I *still* didn’t guess “whodunnit”. I found a lot of the details read in a very authentic way, having had a friend with a recent prosthetic limb, I saw exactly the same comments from the character as those said by my friend. I believe this novel must’ve been thoroughly researched. ( )

I think this book is excellent for its kind - but the kind is *so* formulaic. It felt fully 3 times as long as it ought to have been - and there really was nothing too deep here - except that a bunch of annoying rich and vain people exist... Would never have gotten through it except that I listened to it as an audiobook and had some long drives. ( )