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Cormoran Strike novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
"In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there...
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the...
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough, who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases...
6) Lethal white
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's...
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novel volume 5
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"El detective privado Cormoran Strike, que se halla en Cornwall visitando a su familia, es abordado en plena calle por una mujer que le pide ayuda para encontrar a su madre, Margot Bamborough, desaparecida en 1974 en extrąas circunstancias. A pesar de que nunca se ha enfrentado a un caso ocurrido tantos ąos atr̀s y de ser consciente de las escasas posibilidades de ̌xito, Cormoran Strike y su compąera en la agencia, Robin Ellacott, que sigue atrapada...
8) Blanco letal
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando Billy, un joven con problemas, acude al consultorio privado de Cormoran Strike para pedirle ayuda y que investigue un crimen que cree haber presenciado cuando era nįo, Strike se queda perplejo. Si bien Billy tiene obvios problemas mentales y no logra recordar muchos detalles concretos, hay algo sincero en ̌l y en su historia. Pero, antes de que Strike pueda hacerle m̀s preguntas, Billy, presa del p̀nico, sale corriendo de su oficina. Tratando...
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando se le entrega un paquete misterioso a Robin Ellacott, ella se horroriza al descubrir que contiene la pierna cortada de una mujer. Su jefe, el detective privado Cormoran Strike, está menos sorprendido pero no menos alarmado. Hay cuatro personas de su pasado que cree que podrían ser responsables, y Strike sabe que cualquiera de ellas es capaz de una brutalidad sostenida e indescriptible. Con la policía enfocándose en el único sospechoso...
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