Robert Galbraith

"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, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....

Mrs. Quine is used to her novelist husband, Owen Quine, wandering off only to show up days later, but detective Cormoran Strike finds something far more sinister afoot when he seeks the woman's missing husband and finds the man brutally murdered just as the novelist was preparing to publish a piece filled with scandalous truths about those who knew Owen best. Cormoran must race the clock to understand the merciless killer's motives.

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not...