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- ISBN: 9780316422741
- ISBN: 0316422746
- ISBN: 9780316422734
- ISBN: 0316422738
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- Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
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- Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2018 October #2
J.K. Rowling returns with her fourth pseudonymous mystery, putting Cormoran Strike and his now-partner in detecting, Robin Ellacott, in the middle of a scheme involving blackmail, murder, and the House of Commons. Fans have had to wait three years for the latest Galbraith (Career of Evil, 2015, etc.) novel, but the book picks up exactly where the last installment left off, with Strike arriving late to Robin's wedding, just after she says "I do" to her odious fiance, Matthew. Strike had recently fired Robin from her job at his private detective agency, worried about her safety after a serial killer tried to make her his next victim, and Robin is more concerned with whether he's going to hire her back than about making sure the wedding guests are enjoying themselves. Not-really-spoiler-alert: He is. Flash-forward a year, and the agency is prospering when a mentally ill man named Billy shows up with a half-coherent story about having witnessed something terrible when he was a ch ild: "I seen a kid killedâ¦strangled." Soon after, Jasper Chiswell (pronounced "Chizzle," in the obscure way of the English upper class), the Minister for Culture, hires Strike to find dirt on two people he says are blackmailing him: Geraint Winn, whose wife is another government minister, and Jimmy Knight, who, not coincidentally, is the brother of Billy, whose story Strike had been looking into. Robin goes undercover in Chiswell's office, where we meet a variety of the minister's colleagues, friends, and family members. Rowling keeps many balls up in the airâperhaps too many considering the dead body that gets the book off the ground doesn't show up until Page 281. There are still another 366 pages to go, and much of that length is a slog. Robin, who can be a great character, spends way too much time wondering what to do about her personal lifeâfor the fourth book in a row. The mystery itself is complex, which is good, verging on convoluted, which is not. T here are pleasures to be had, as in Rowling's jokes on her uber-posh characters: " âSteady on, old chap,' said [Chiswell's son-in-law], something that Robin had never thought to hear outside a book." But there's way too much filler in between. Let's hope Rowling's next book is sharper and shorter. Copyright Kirkus 2018 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - PW Annex Reviews : Publishers Weekly Annex Reviews
Under her Galbraith pseudonym, J.K. Rowling impressively sustains suspense over the course of a lengthy mystery in her fourth outing for London PI Cormoran Strike and his partner, Robin Ellacott. The pair have reunited professionally after the events of 2015's Career of Evil, in which Strike fired Robin for her handling of the Shacklewell Ripper case; their personal relationship remains unsettled in the wake of Robin's marriage to a man who resents her job. The "curious case of a government minister, slashed horses and a body buried in a pink blanket, down in a dell" begins when a man named Billy, "one of those ill and desperate people you saw in the capital who were always somebody else's problem," bursts into Strike's office and claims that he saw a child strangled when he was very young. Billy flees before offering more information, but Strike's curiosity about the possible cold case leads him to try to trace Billy. Soon after, in what seems to be suspicious timing, Strike is retained by Culture Minister Jasper Chiswell to protect him against an extortionist, who turns out to be Billy's brother, Jimmy Knight. Rowling's emotionally intelligent portrayal of her protagonists never overwhelms the whodunit story line. Agent: Neil Blair, the Blair Partnership (U.K.). (Sept.)
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