a fantastic storyteller, ......

that it is that JK Rowling proves again with her new book "The Cuckoo`s Calling" which she wrote under the pen name Robert Galbraith. My experience when reading is free of comparisons, because I have not read any of the Harry Potter books, but could not remember the enthusiasm of my sons, who devoured these books.
These are, however, not a fantasy novel, but the beginning of a crime series about the private investigator Cormoran Strike.Strike is a figure that is quite still expandable, but already follows a certain pattern in the English detective stories. 35 years old, the former Afghan fighter who lost a leg in the war breaks through as a private investigator, rather unsuccessfully, thus actually also always broke. After his separation from his partner, he sleeps on a camp bed in his office and gets one day visit of John Bristow, even lawyer. His sister, a known photo model is plunged from the balcony of her apartment to death. Suicide? Your brother does not think so and so he commissioned to find the evidence for a murder Cormoran Strike. Strike is his assistant Robin aside, just before the Bristow entered the office, was sent there by an employment agency as a temp there. They convinced Strike by rapid intelligent and flexible behavior and then make the two to work to solve this case.
Who now expects an action-packed, blood-soaked thriller here, let him be warned. This you will not find in this book. The voltage is kept within limits, also the fact that Rowling wrote her story in interview form. For the people who are interviewed, have advised some cliched descriptions of how a gay designer, drug-addicted lover, gangster rappers, etc., but the story itself is its well managed and in my opinion well designed. The person Robin I liked, only seems her relationship with Strike somewhat transparent.

All in all, my book but well liked. Rowling has just a captivating narrative style, which makes the whole thing very entertaining.