Genre: Contemporary Mystery
Date Published: June 2014
Publisher: Mulholland
# Of Pages/Listening Time: 455 pages/17 hours 20 minutes
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Synopsis: When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives—meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.
When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...
My Rating:
★★★★★
.....For exceeding my expectations on the re-read
My Thoughts:
Gah! I thought I knew who the villain was! Man, I'm terrible at solving mysteries!
This was definitely a very good sequel to The Cuckoo's Calling. I just didn't want to stop reading! It was considerably more gruesome, but equally as fun as the last book. I love Strike and Robin as characters and I think they make a great team. The pace of the novel was excellent, the writing excellent, and the whodunit has a bit of a twist, which I always love in a murder mystery, even if I don't guess right.
The other day I discovered, to my extreme pleasure, that there's a third book! Yay! Of course I just have to get started on this next one.
Mystery lovers definitely need to check this series out! Rowling fans....don't read this simply because you love Rowling; read it because you enjoy a good mystery.
Review From 2018 (2nd Read):
You gotta love it when a re-read is more enjoyable than the first time, especially when you're reading a mystery novel. What makes this re-read even more impressive, is that this novel fooled me again!
Yup, I vaguely remembered who did it, I was pretty confident that I remembered it right; then J.K. Rowling managed to convince me that I was wrong and then twisted it back round so she could trick me again! Well played, Rowling, well played.
Well, if a mystery novel can still grab my interest, make me like the characters, and fool me twice, then it's definitely a favorite. On to the next one!
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