2nd book in the highly acclaimed and publicised crime fiction series by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Cormoran Strike is on the trail of the ruthless killer of a novelist who's just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen portraits of almost everyone he knows. The hardback of first in the series, }The Cuckoo's Calling{ spent 6 weeks at No.1 in the bestseller charts. Now in paperback.