Bingo Chart Review: The Cuckoo’s Calling - Robert Galbraith
As part of my bingo chart reading challenge for 2016 I decided to pick up a crime novel. It’s not really my genre, as I for some reason just don’t enjoy crime novels that much. But I decided to step out of my comfort zone and give the genre another go. I picked this particular book because Robert Galbraith is a pen name for J.K. Rowling, and if nothing else, then at least the writing would be good. This book is about a private detective who is having a bit of a hard time lately. His business is not going too well, and neither is his private life. An old acquaintance contacts him in order to have his sister’s suicide investigated, as he believes it wasn’t a suicide at all. The detective, Cormoran Strike, accepts the case and works it with the help of his resourceful and intelligent assistant/secretary Robin. I liked the story well enough and it was well-written, as I knew it would be. But I found that I wasn’t really all that interested in the mystery of it. Th...