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Official The Cuckoo's Calling Thread - New Book Written by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and The Casual Vacancy author J.K. Rowling has revealed that she ghost-wrote a crime novel titled The Cuckoo’s Calling.
Rowling operated under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith and published The Cuckoo’s Calling in April of this year.
The Telegraph received confirmation from the author as well as a statement. “I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience,” said Rowling. “It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name.”
The author’s biography is as hilarious as this news that’s been kept secret from us for several months. It reads, “After several years with the Royal Military Police, Robert Galbraith was attached to the SIB (Special Investigative Branch), the plain-clothes branch of the RMP. He left the military in 2003 and has been working since then in the civilian security industry. The idea for Cormoran Strike grew directly out of his own experiences and those of his military friends who returned to the civilian world. ‘Robert Galbraith’ is a pseudonym.”
The book is available right now on Amazon and currently has a nearly 5-star rating.
Read’s the book’s official synopsis found on Amazon:
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.
Cover:
Developing… more soon…
Rowling operated under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith and published The Cuckoo’s Calling in April of this year.
The Telegraph received confirmation from the author as well as a statement. “I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience,” said Rowling. “It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name.”
The author’s biography is as hilarious as this news that’s been kept secret from us for several months. It reads, “After several years with the Royal Military Police, Robert Galbraith was attached to the SIB (Special Investigative Branch), the plain-clothes branch of the RMP. He left the military in 2003 and has been working since then in the civilian security industry. The idea for Cormoran Strike grew directly out of his own experiences and those of his military friends who returned to the civilian world. ‘Robert Galbraith’ is a pseudonym.”
The book is available right now on Amazon and currently has a nearly 5-star rating.
Read’s the book’s official synopsis found on Amazon:
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.
Cover:
Developing… more soon…
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Comments
I find this line of an Amazon review the most hilarious though, "This book is so well written that I suspect that some years down the road we will hear the author's name is a pseudonym of some famous writer."
lololol :P
I'm dowloading the preview page of amazon and give them here after
Etymology says that Robert is "famous", Galbraith is "stranger"
but time for a break
I'm half way through Chapter 3 so far and I love it! So far it is making up for The Casual Vacancy!
JK... This is the type of thing that makes me want to birth your grandchildren. Ill be buying immediately.
This is really good though. How are you feeling about it so far @Kranen
And I am so glad that we didn't have to wait for this one like we did with Vacancy!
I think if they decide to republish it with her name on the front I'll buy another copy just for the sake of it.
just found this http://www.mulhollandbooks.com/2013/03/05/start-reading-the-cuckoos-calling/
This is so great I was clapping my hands when I was reading about it. It seemed so obvious she was doing this and like Ryan said, the first thing that popped into my mind is where the other books are.
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i think this is the top best of stupid comment concerning JK Rowling I've ever read !!!