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Loading... Troubled Bloodby Robert Galbraith
   No current Talk conversations about this book.   Abcdarian | May 18, 2024 |   ) TraSea | May 6, 2024 | Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike. (  ) creighley | Apr 10, 2024 | BJMacauley | Oct 2, 2023 | This is a tomb of a book, over 900 pages, with a multitude of characters. I kept a track of them with useful https://strikefans.com/ web site. I also appreciated that meeting places were real and traceable via google street view. ( ) GeoffSC | Aug 20, 2023 |
 A scrupulous plotter and master of misdirection, Galbraith keeps the pages turning but, while much of the book is terrific fun, is hardly a hair-raising ride. The languid pace and elderliness of the mystery (and indeed most of the suspects) give the enterprise the cosy air of a Sunday night TV drama. When the denouement finally comes, it is not quite satisfying enough to justify the page count. Strike and Ellacott, however, remain one of crime's most engaging duos. I am already eager for the next instalment. I just hope my aching arms can take it. Belongs to SeriesCormoran Strike (5) Is contained in
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HTML:In the epic fifth installment in this ??compulsively readable? (People) series, Galbraith??s ??irresistible hero and heroine? (USA Today) take on the decades-old cold case of a missing doctor, one which may be their grisliest yet. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough??who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot??s disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can pro No library descriptions found. |
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