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The cuckoo's calling

"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."--Dust jacket.

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  • "Dekut burung kukuk"
  • "Cuckoo is calling"@en
  • "Cuckoo is calling"

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  • "Als das berühmte Model Lula Landry von ihrem schneebedeckten Balkon im Londoner Stadtteil Mayfair in den Tod stürzt, steht für die ermittelnden Beamten schnell fest, dass es Selbstmord war. Der Fall scheint abgeschlossen. Doch Lulas Bruder hat Zweifel. Ein Privatdetektiv soll für ihn die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. Cormoran Strike hat in Afghanistan körperliche und seelische Wunden davongetragen, mangels Aufträgen ist er ausserdem finanziell am Ende. Der spektakuläre neue Fall ist seine Rettung, doch Strike ahnt nicht, was die Ermittlungen ihm abverlangen werden. Während er immer weiter eindringt in die Welt der Reichen und Schönen, fördert Strike Erschreckendes zutage und gerät selbst in grosse Gefahr."
  • ""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."--Dust jacket."@en
  • ""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."--Dust jacket."
  • "Working as a private investigator after losing his leg in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike takes the case of a legendary supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, desperate designers and hedonist pursuits."
  • "Das Krimi-Ereignis, über das die Welt spricht! Als das berühmte Model Lula Landry von ihrem schneebedeckten Balkon im Londoner Stadtteil Mayfair in den Tod stürzt, steht für die ermittelnden Beamten schnell fest, dass es Selbstmord war. Der Fall scheint abgeschlossen. Doch Lulas Bruder hat Zweifel - ein Privatdetektiv soll für ihn die Wahrheit ans Licht bringen. Cormoran Strike hat in Afghanistan körperliche und seelische Wunden davongetragen, mangels Aufträgen ist er ausserdem finanziell am Ende. Der spektakuläre neue Fall ist seine Rettung, doch der Privatdetektiv ahnt nicht, was die Ermittlungen ihm abverlangen werden. Während Strike immer weiter eindringt in die Welt der Reichen und Schönen, fördert er Erschreckendes zutage und gerät selbst in grosse Gefahr ... Ein fesselnder, einzigartiger Kriminalroman, der die Atmosphäre Londons eindrucksvoll einfängt - von der gedämpften Ruhe in den Strassen Mayfairs zu den versteckten Pubs des East Ends und dem lebhaften Treiben Sohos. 'Der Ruf des Kuckucks' ist das hochgelobte Krimidebüt von J.K. Rowling, geschrieben unter dem Pseudonym Robert Galbraith, in dem sie mit Cormoran Strike einen ungewöhnlichen Ermittler präsentiert. Robert Galbraith ist das Pseudonym von J.K. Rowling, Autorin der Harry-Potter-Reihe und des Romans Ein plötzlicher Todesfall."
  • ""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."--Dust jacket."@en
  • ""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."--Jaquette."
  • "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."@en
  • ""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."--Jacket."
  • "Een privédetective krijgt het verzoek onderzoek te doen naar de plotselinge dood van een bekend fotomodel."
  • "When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. A war veteran, wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike's life is in disarray."@en
  • "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, thelegendary 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."@en
  • "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, thelegendary 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."
  • "A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary 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."@en
  • ""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, thelegendary 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."--Dust jacket."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Spannung"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
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  • "The cuckoo's calling"
  • "The cuckoo's calling"@en
  • "The Cuckoo's Calling"@en
  • "The Cuckoo's Calling"
  • "˜Derœ Ruf des Kuckucks [Roman]"
  • "The cuckoo's calling = Dekut burung kukuk"
  • "Klic kukavice"@sl
  • "Der Ruf des Kuckucks"
  • "˜Derœ Ruf des Kuckucks Roman"
  • "The cuckooś calling"
  • "Der Ruf des Kuckucks : Roman"
  • "Cuckoo's Calling"
  • "Der Ruf des Kuckucks Roman"
  • "Cuckoo's calling"@en
  • "Cuckoo's calling"
  • "The Cuckoo's calling"@en

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