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Il primo eccezionale romanzo della serie noir scritta da Robert Galbraith, pseudonimo di J. K. Rowling, autrice di Harry Potter. È notte fonda quando Lula Landry, leggendaria e capricciosa top model, precipita dal balcone del suo lussuoso attico a Mayfair sul marciapiede innevato. La polizia archivia il caso come suicidio, ma il fratello della modella non può crederci. Decide di affidarsi a un investigatore privato e un caso del destino lo conduce all'ufficio di Cormoran Strike. 

Londra. L'eccentrico scrittore Owen Quine non si fa vedere da giorni. Non è la prima volta che scompare improvvisamente, ma non è mai stato via così tanto tempo e la moglie ha bisogno di ritrovarlo. Decide così di assumere l'investigatore privato Cormoran Strike per riportare a casa il marito. Ma appena Strike comincia a indagare, appare chiaro che dietro la scomparsa di Quine c'è molto di più di quanto sua moglie sospetti.

Quando un misterioso pacco viene consegnato a Robin Ellacott, la ragazza rimane inorridita nello scoprire che contiene la gamba amputata di una donna. L'investigatore privato Cormoran Strike, il suo capo, è meno sorpreso, ma non per questo meno preoccupato. Solo quattro persone che fanno parte del suo passato potrebbero esserne responsabili - e Strike sa che ciascuno di loro sarebbe capace di questa e altre indicibili brutalità. La polizia concentra le indagini su un sospettato, ma Strike è sempre più convinto che lui sia innocente.

Quando il giovane Billy, in preda a una grande agitazione, irrompe nella sua agenzia investigativa per denunciare un crimine a cui crede di aver assistito da piccolo, Cormoran Strike rimane profondamente turbato. Anche se Billy ha problemi mentali e fatica a ricordare i particolari concreti, in lui e nel suo racconto c'è qualcosa di sincero. Ma prima che Strike possa interrogarlo più a fondo, Billy si spaventa e fugge via.

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one 40 years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on.

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger...

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. 

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.

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 whom he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.

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, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he’s living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry - known to her friends as the Cuckoo - famously fell to her death a few months earlier.