Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith review – a daft but enjoyable hunt for a serial killer

The third crime caper from JK Rowling’s alter ego sees private detective Cormoran Strike haunted by his own and his mother’s past

JK Rowling AKA Robert Galbraith

 
Gusto and confidence … JK Rowling AKA Robert Galbraith
On his third outing in fiction, irascible private detective Cormoran Strike – taciturn, reckless and permanently hungover, the creation of JK Rowling’s alter ego Robert Galbraith – is ambushed by a leg. The leg in question is delivered by motorcycle courier to his lovely assistant, Robin, in their cramped offices above the guitar shops of Soho’s Denmark Street – “And it’s not even my size,” deadpans Strike, ex-military policeman and amputee, to the detective inspector in charge of the investigation.

The leg is also the wrong sex, having been detached from the body of a young woman, and is accompanied by a quote from a song by hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult that resonates with Strike’s murky past: his dead, super-groupie mother had an intimate tattoo of the same lyric.
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