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Audio Book Review: Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike Book 3)by Robert Galbraith

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Release Date:  October 20, 2015 Publisher:  Hatchette Audio Format:  Audio Length:  17 hours 58 minutes Narrator:  Robert Glenister Genre:  Mystery Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis: When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them.... Review:  I could listen to Robert Glenister read forever. ...

Audio Book: Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

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Release Date: June 19, 2014 Publisher: Hatchette Audio Format: Audible Length: 17 hrs 22 min Narrator: Robert Glenister Buy: Audible | Paperback | Kindle Synopsis: Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the number-one international best seller  The Cuckoo's Calling . 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 everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives - meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally murdered under biza...

Audio Book Review: The Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith (Cormoran Strike Book 1)

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Release Date: May 16, 2013 Publisher: Hachette Audio Format: Audible Length: 15 hours 54 minutes Narrator: Robert Glenister Genre: Mystery Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. 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. 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 t...