Gelungener Einstieg in diese Serie! ( )

This is the first book about private detective Cormoran Strike, an ex-soldier who is in a difficult private situation. His secretary/assistant Robin starts working for him and they solve their first case together.
A supermodel falls from her balcony in an apparent suicide, but a few months later her brother approaches Strike because he is convinced that his sister was murdered.

I must say that the action moved far too slow for me and I never really warmed to Strike and Robin. I enjoyed the case and the London setting, and towards the end, when the plot finally picked up, I was excited, but all in all I found it a bit boring. To me, it is an odd crossover between cosy crime and a city setting with grim aspects, and the narrative perspective is not what I like in a crime novel - it is too detached, which creates an imbalance between the plot and contents and the style. ( )

I'm sorry, but I didn't enjoy this book. I didn't like neither the characters nor the plot. Normally I would give it two stars, but I added one for the author. I'm sorry, because I really wanted to enjoy it. I'm not going to read the rest of the series. ( )

I don’t know if so would have enjoyed it as much if I hadn’t already watched the adaption. Picturing the actor who portrayed Strike in the adaption made some of the questionable and sketchy decisions bearable. ( )

Fun mystery novel with lead characters Cormoran and Robin that I will be happy to see again in another book.

JKR knows how to tell a story and this is no exception. Her characters and descriptions are all great. Truly my biggest beef with the whole book is her excessive use of "the C word". I word I hate so much I won't even type it here. Is this an actual common word in England? I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've heard it spoken aloud here in the US and seeing it in print is far more jarring to me than other curse words. But still, that's a minor complaint.

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