02068cam a2200325 i 4500 144387312 TxAuBib 20130912120000.0 130213s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013933193 9780316206846 hardcover 0316206849 hardcover TxAuBib rda Galbraith, Robert,. The Cuckoo's Calling / Robert Galbraith. First North American Edition. New York : Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 455 pages ; 26 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers and hedonist pursuits. "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. 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."--Dust jacket. 20130912. Private investigators England London Fiction. Afghan War, 2001- Veterans Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Mystery fiction.