The Cuckoo’s Calling

　　J.K.羅琳化身羅勃‧蓋布瑞斯
　　推出第一本犯罪小說！

　　一位美麗的模特兒墜樓身亡。
　　他們都認為這是她迷失於成名遊戲的必然後果，
　　只有他卻深信：
　　沒有一種死亡，是理所當然……

　　她美得令人屏息，身為全世界曝光率最高的名模，身價破億。但是現在，她死了。所有的證據都顯示她是自殺，所有的輿論都認為這是一個生活混亂的拜金女理所當然的下場。

　　他是落魄的私家偵探，才剛被女友拋棄，家當只有四個紙箱，就連偵探事務所也瀕臨破產。當他把露拉之死當作只是遲早會冷卻的八卦新聞時，露拉的哥哥約翰卻找上了他。約翰認為妹妹的死另有隱情，聘請史崔克找出真正的兇手。

　　為了拯救財務危機，史崔克硬著頭皮接下了這個案子。但當他逐一探訪露拉的親友，蒐集各方證詞，一個真正的露拉終於重現在他的眼前：她揮金如土，但卻又同情弱勢。她多愁善感，但脾氣火爆。她既是天使，也是魔鬼。

　　隨著愈益深入案情，史崔克也陷入幽暗的回憶，那是他不願回想起的過往創傷。他比任何人都清楚，露拉的瘋狂、混亂和墮落將會招來什麼。只有他深信，當所有的人都認為露拉「該死」，是這樣的惡意，掩飾了兇手的惡行……

　　《杜鵑的呼喚》是J.K.羅琳以筆名「羅勃‧蓋布瑞斯」所寫的第一部犯罪小說，也是私家偵探柯莫藍．史崔克的初登場之作。全書從倫敦梅菲爾的上流住宅，一路來到東區的地下酒吧，再到喧囂擾攘的蘇活區，不僅文筆優雅、情節引人，更充滿著獨特的懸疑氛圍，也難怪甫一出版，即飽受各界讚譽！

　　A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.

　　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.

　　You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.

　　★本書中譯版《杜鵑的呼喚》由皇冠出版。

作者簡介

羅伯特‧蓋博瑞斯（Robert Galbraith）

　　羅伯特‧蓋博瑞斯為哈利波特作者J.K 羅琳的另一化身筆名，其首部懸疑犯罪小說一推出即轟動國外出版界，獲得廣大好評。

　　After several years with the Royal Military Police, Robert Galbraith was attached to the SIB (Special Investigative Branch), the plain-clothes branch of the RMP. He left the military in 2003 and has been working since then in the civilian security industry. The idea for Cormoran Strike grew directly out of his own experiences and those of his military friends who returned to the civilian world. 'Robert Galbraith' is a pseudonym.