The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike #1) by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling)

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.

Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

I really enjoyed this book! It was suspenseful and kept me guessing to the very end; the characters were engaging and life-like; and, for me, the story story flowed well with no boring or slow bits.

The only part where the book lost me was the very last couple of pages, I didn't get how the final poem fit in, obviously I was just missing something.

I haven't read the Casual Vacancy, but I didn't feel like I was reading a Harry Potter book at all - if I didn't know Robert Galbraith was a pseudonym I would never have known it was J.K Rowling.

Definitely worth reading if you are a fan of murder mystery stories.