The story starts out with the controversial suicide of Super model Luna Landry and her brother coming to Cormoran Strike, the lead protagonist, the Poirot of this story to investigate the same as he firmly believes it was suicide and not murder. In the mean while Strike has broken out of his tumultuous relationship with his girl friend Charlotte and moved into his office and is shortly joined by a temporary assistant Robin who proves more than resourceful in Strike's investigation of the suicide as the story progresses. Through numerous interrogations, way lays, etc. Strike threads all the evidences together to find the whodunnit.
What I liked about the book was the unpredictability of who the murderer was, but I think i could have done with a little more build up to the revelation. Sorry to say but I don't think anybody even comes close to Agatha Christie when it comes to writing murder mysteries. The book is a tad too lengthy, with not enough happening to keep you hooked to it. I mean, you could just leave it around and then pick it up to follow with the investigation. I was left wanting more from the story. The different evidences are definitely put together well and make logical sense but you know at some point you couldn't care less who the murderer was. But for the sake of wanting to read more of Rowling's writing for old times sake, it is a good pick up. Some might like it more than I did also because my friend did do a spoiler on me. So I guess the suspense did not work for me. But it might just work for somebody else.
So have fun reading.
