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Book Review- The Cuckoos Calling
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Book Review on- The Cuckoos Calling by J.K Rowling

By- Aishwarya Pahwa
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The Cuckoos Calling
The Cuckoos Calling is a crime fiction released in April 2013 under the name of Robert Galbraith used by the famous author J.K. Rowling. She used the name to see how these books were received by the public without using her name and she was pleased to see the results when The Cuckoos Calling became a bestseller. Christopher Gossage was fined for beach of client confidentiality after he told his wife’s best friend that Robert Galbraith is the pen name used by Rowling. Her pseudonym was publicly revealed by the Sunday Times when Gossage’s friend revealed the information during a Twitter exchange with a journalist.
Theme and setting of the story:
The setting of this novel is London with its posh areas as well as the impoverished areas. The story takes us into the whole aura of London with a very descriptive portray of its weather, streets, trains, major delicacies and most importantly the fashion industry by the author.
The theme is based on a murder mystery being solved by a private detective who is at rock bottom and struggling with his own life. The story revolves around a famous model whose death remains as a question to his brother and many others and a quest to find the truth by the protagonist.
Plot:
Cormoran Strike is a private detective whose business is about to come to an end when out of the blue he gets a case from a high profile lawyer.
John Bristow was the lawyer who came to Strike to solve the case of the death of his sister who is a famous model and adopted by the Bristow family like himself.
Lula Landry shocked the world when her body was found on the snow covered street of London at 2 am in the morning and the police declared it as a suicide.
While many people came to terms with this story, John Bristow could not fathom that his sister could jump out of the balcony for no good reason.
Strike took

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