Robert Galbraith

Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C. B. Strike. 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, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking 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.

Robin Ellakott poluchaet s kurerom tainstvennyj paket - v kotorom obnaruzhivaetsja otrezannaja zhenskaja noga. Ee nachalnik, chastnyj detektiv Kormoran Strajk, ne tak udivlen - no vstrevozhen ne menshe. V ego proshlom est chetyre vozmozhnykh kandidatury na lichnost otpravitelja - i kazhdyj iz chetverykh sposoben na nemyslimuju zhestokost. Politsija sosredotochivaet usilija na poiske odnogo iz etikh chetverykh - no Strajk chem dalshe, tem bolshe uveren, chto imenno etot podozrevaemyj ni pri chem. Vdvoem s Robin oni vynuzhdeny vzjat delo v svoi ruki i pogruzitsja v puchiny iskoverkannoj psikhiki ostalnykh troikh podozrevaemykh. No tainstvennyj ubijtsa nanosit novye udary, i Strajk s Robin ponimajut, chto ikh vremja na iskhode... "Na sluzhbe zla" - djavolski uvlekatelnyj roman-zagadka s mnozhestvom neozhidannykh sjuzhetnykh povorotov, a takzhe - istorija muzhchiny i zhenschiny, prebyvajuschikh na perepute kak v professionalnom plane, tak i v tom, chto kasaetsja lichnykh otnoshenij.

"Ja videl, kak rebenka ubili... Ego zadushili naverkhu, prjamo u loshadi". U Billi javnye problemy s umstvennym zdorovem, no on uveren, chto v detstve videl ubijstvo rebenka, - i davnjaja trevoga nakonets privodit ego v ofis chastnogo detektiva Kormorana Strajka, vnov proslavivshegosja posle poimki Shekluellskogo Potroshitelja. Dogovorit Billi ne uspevaet, spugnutyj perspektivoj skorogo priezda politsii, no ego istorija ne vykhodit u Strajka iz golovy. Popytki dokopatsja do istiny povedut Strajka i ego pomoschnitsu Robin Ellakott (stavshuju polnotsennym partnerom v ikh agentstve) slozhnym izvilistym putem: ot okrainnykh klubov, gde sobirajutsja protivniki Londonskoj olimpiady, - v propitannye intrigami koridory vlasti, ot parlamentskikh kabinetov - k okutannomu tajnoj imeniju v glubine Oksfordshira... No esche neizvestno, chto budet Kormoranu i Robin slozhnee - razgadat etu golovolomnuju zagadku ili razobratsja v svoikh chuvstvakh... Vpervye na russkom!" Dolgozhdannoe prodolzhenie tsikla o Kormorane Strajke ot Dzhoan Rouling, ukryvshejsja na sej raz pod psevdonimom. Ocherednaja bezuprechnaja variatsija v ramkakh klassicheskogo detektivnogo kanona i novyj vitok v otnoshenijakh Kormorana Strajka i ego pomoschnitsy Robin Ellakott", - Galina Juzefovich, literaturnyj kritik meduza.io"Chitaesh "Smertelnuju beliznu" - i vremenami voznikaet oschuschenie srodni tomu, chto bylo pri chtenii knig o Garri Pottere, osobenno pozdnikh, bolee obemistykh: ty uzhe poljubil geroev kak rodnykh i khochesh nasladitsja ikh kompaniej kak mozhno dolshe i chtoby nikto ne toropil", - New York Times"Imejte v vidu! Odolet chetvertyj roman Dzhoan Rouling iz serii o Kormorane Strajke, kotoruju ona publikuet pod psevdonimom Robert Gelbrejt, budet vesma neprosto. I delo zdes ne v obeme. 650 stranits ne samyj bolshoj roman, kotoryj mne prikhodilos chitat. Delo v slozhnom perepletenii sjuzhetnykh linij, sudeb geroev i obilii detektivnykh zagadok", - LiveLib, otzyv VldmrvchPerevodchik: Elena PetrovaV kakom porjadke chitat knigi Roberta Gelbrejta Zov kukushkiShelkoprjadNa sluzhbe zlaSmertelnaja belizna

Kogda skandalno izvestnaja top-model, upav s zasnezhennogo balkona svoego pentkhausa, razbivaetsja nasmert, vse reshajut, chto eto samoubijstvo. No brat devushki ne mozhet smiritsja s takim vyvodom i obraschaetsja k uslugam chastnogo syschika po imeni Kormoran Strajk. Strajk proshel vojnu, postradal fizicheski i dushevno; zhizn ego nesetsja pod otkos. Teper on rasschityvaet zakryt khotja by finansovuju bresh, odnako rassledovanie oborachivaetsja kovarnoj lovushkoj. Uglubljajas v zaputannuju istoriju junoj zvezdy, Strajk priotkryvaet tajnuju iznanku sobytij - i sam dvizhetsja navstrechu smertelnoj opasnosti... Zakhvatyvajuschij, ottochennyj sjuzhet razvorachivaetsja na fone Londona, ot tikhikh ulits blagopristojnogo Mejfera do obsharpannykh pabov Ist-Enda i kruglosutochno burljaschego Sokho. "Zov Kukushki" - nezaurjadnyj i zasluzhenno populjarnyj roman, v kotorom vpervye pojavljaetsja Kormoran Strajk. Eto takzhe pervoe proizvedenie Dzh. K. Rouling, sozdannoe v detektivnom zhanre i podpisannoe imenem Roberta Gelbrejta. Perevodchik: Petrova Elena Serafimovna

Den syvende boken i serien om Cormoran Strike. Cormoran Strike kontaktes av en meget bekymret far. Sønnen Will har sluttet seg til en mystisk sekt på landsbygda i Norfolk. Sekten har isolert ham fullstendig fra omverdenen, og familien frykter for livet hans. For å redde Will, reiser Strikes forretningspartner Robin Ellacott til Norfolk for å bli med i kulten og leve inkognito blant medlemmene. Men hun er ikke forberedt på farene som venter henne der. Strike og Robin avdekker snart skremmende hemmeligheter om sekten – og innser at de står overfor en trussel langt farligere enn de først trodde.