The cuckoo's calling
(Book)
Author:
Series:
Cormoran Strike novel ; volume 1.
Published:
New York, NY : Little, Brown, 2018., ©2013
Format:
Book
Physical Desc:
456, 11 pages ; 21 cm.
Lexile measure:
940L
Rating:
940L
Status:
Description
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.
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Location
Call Number
Status
North Branford/Smith Adult Fiction
Fiction Galbraith
On Shelf
More Details
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780316486378
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 6.7, 24 Points
Level 6.7, 24 Points
Lexile measure:
940
Notes
General Note
Includes an excerpt of the author's, The silkworm.
Description
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.
Target Audience
940L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.7,24.0,160427.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,6.7,24,160427.
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Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Galbraith, R. (2018). The cuckoo's calling. Little, Brown.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Galbraith, Robert. 2018. The Cuckoo's Calling. Little, Brown.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Galbraith, Robert, The Cuckoo's Calling. Little, Brown, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Galbraith, Robert. The Cuckoo's Calling. Little, Brown, 2018.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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