![]() Fortunately, he has Robin Ellacott, his associate, to get him back on course: He is the muscle and the mover, prosthetic leg notwithstanding, but Robin has a talent for ferreting just the right bits of information out of people. Now locked away, Creed is just one of the suspects who emerges in the course of Rowling’s overlong but propulsive yarn, each of whom seems to have the job of pulling Strike away from the elusive truth. ![]() Strike, working his first cold case, Googles the doctor’s name only to find that her disappearance had aspects in common with ones attributed to the very unpleasant Dennis Creed, who kidnapped, raped, murdered, and beheaded his victims-sometimes, in a choice that will raise red flags coming from Rowling, while dressed in women's clothes. Her mother, Margot Bamborough, a general practitioner, disappeared from her clinic-in 1974. Rowling returns with the fifth of her Cormoran Strike series of detective thrillers, and the blood flows fast.Īt the opening, we find Strike at a pub-he’s never far from an adult beverage-when he’s approached by a young woman with a strange tale. ![]()
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