Day 38
I have just read Robert Galbraith’s (aka J K Rowling) Troubled Blood . It is very good but it is also very heavy. If you have a kindle, buy the electronic version. I didn’t because I was so incensed that the kindle copy was more expensive than the hard back. How can they justify that? Anyway, Troubled Blood is nine hundred and twenty-seven pages of superb detective story. The main characters are, as before, Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, partners in a detective agency based in Soho. The agency is slightly more prosperous than before and they have a secretary and subcontractors to help with the increased work. However, it is not a happy time. Robin’s husband is making their divorce as gruelling and painful as possible and Strike’s Aunt Joan, who brought him up, is dying slowly and painfully from cancer. On a visit to Joan in Cornwall, Strike is approached by a couple of women, Kim and Anna. Anna is upset and anxious. They want Strike to take up their case.