Cold Case
As I write this there are 2,700 reviews on Amazon for
J.K. Rowling’s writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith fifth Cormoran
Strike novel. Galbraith continues to tell the saga of private As detective
Cormoran Strike and his now partner Robin Ellacott in their pursuit of a
40-year-old cold case. A 30-year-old doctor and former Playboy bunny and the
mother of a one-year old girl Margot Bamborough disappeared 40 years before in
1974 under very mysterious circumstances. It was assumed that she was murdered
by a cross-dressing psychopathic serial killer, but her body was never
recovered.
Strike and Ellacott are hired by the now 40-year-old
daughter to uncover exactly what happened. Along the way have a series of deep
character studies of the protagonists, the serial killer, the police detectives
who originally investigated the case, and running down assorted suspects from
four decades ago. Especially moving is Strike’s relationship with his Aunt Joan
who was dying of cancer and her family. Aunt Joan raised Strike as a boy after
being abandoned by both his parents. We also are a witness to the increasingly
close relationship between Strike and Robin and Galbraith gets you into their
heads.
The author tells a great story and there is much more here
than the primary case, but the book at 944 pages in the print edition is a bit
too long for my taste.
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