Relié: 464 pages
Editeur : Little, Brown (18 avril 2013)
On l'a appris hier (ICI) Robert Galbraith est en fait un pseudonyme que JKR a utilisé. Selon elle, ca faisait du bien de pouvoir sortir un bouquin sans avoir la pression des fans d'Harry Potter!!!
Il y a actuellement 90 notes sur Goodreads (avec une moyenne de 4.02/5) et 27 sur Amazon (4 étoiles/5), 1500 copies on été vendues et il y a fort à parier que les ventes vont exploser!!!!!! Il ne faudra sans doute pas attendre longtemps non plus avant qu'une maison d'édition francophone saute dessus pour le traduire...
Moi je vais me faire ma propre idée et le lire en Vo, il parait qu'on retrouve facilement le style de JKR quand on sait que c'est elle qui l'a écrit... Ce livre me tente plus que "the casual Vacancy" donc je reviens vous dire ce que j'en ai pensé au plus vite...
Le résumé:
A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. 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.
You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.