Als een legendarisch topmodel een dodelijke val maakt van een balkon in de chique Londense wijk Mayfair, gaat de politie uit van zelfmoord. Haar broer weigert dit echter te accepteren en schakelt privédetective Cormoran Strike in.
Strike neemt de klus dankbaar aan. Sinds hij zijn been verloor in Afghanistan is zijn leven een puinhoop. Hij heeft bijna geen opdrachten en de schuldeisers zitten achter hem aan. En daarbij is hij net weg bij zij...
Detective Cormoran Strike en zijn assistent Robin Ellacott staan voor een nieuw mysterie, en op een kruispunt in hun leven.
Als Robin Ellacott een mysterieus pakket opent, krijgt ze de schrik van haar leven: in de doos zit een afgehakt vrouwenbeen. Haar baas, privédetective Cormoran Strike, is niet zozeer verrast, maar meer op zijn hoede. Er zijn vier mensen uit zijn verleden die hij in staat acht tot zo'n gruwelijke daad.
De politie hee...
Highly inventive storytelling' GUARDIAN'Outrageously entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship' INDEPENDENT'Blistering piece of crime writing' SUNDAY TIMES'Fans will love it' HEAT-----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...
Quando un misterioso pacco viene consegnato a Robin Ellacott, la ragazza rimane inorridita nello scoprire che contiene la gamba amputata di una donna. L'investigatore privato Cormoran Strike, il suo capo, è meno sorpreso, ma non per questo meno preoccupato. Solo quattro persone che fanno parte del suo passato potrebbero esserne responsabili - e Strike sa che ciascuno di loro sarebbe capace di questa e altre indicibili brutalità. La polizia con...
Der private Ermittler Cormoran Strike ist zutiefst beunruhigt: Ein verstörter junger Mann bittet ihn um Hilfe bei der Aufklärung eines Verbrechens, das er - so glaubt er - als Kind mit angesehen hat. Billy hat offensichtlich psychische Probleme und kann sich nur an wenig im Detail erinnern, doch er und seine Worte klingen glaubwürdig. Bevor Strike ihn allerdings ausführlich befragen kann, ergreift der Mann panisch die Flucht. Um Billys Geschic...
Ein verstörter junger Mann bittet den privaten Ermittler Cormoran Strike um Hilfe bei der Aufklärung eines Verbrechens, das er - so glaubt er - als Kind mit angesehen hat. Strike ist beunruhigt: Billy hat offensichtlich psychische Probleme und kann sich nur an wenig im Detail erinnern, doch er wirkt aufrichtig. Bevor Strike ihn allerdings ausführlich befragen kann, ergreift der Mann panisch die Flucht. Um Billys Geschichte auf den Grund zu geh...
Quando un misterioso pacco viene consegnato a Robin Ellacott, la ragazza rimane inorridita nello scoprire che contiene la gamba amputata di una donna. L'investigatore privato Cormoran Strike, il suo capo, è meno sorpreso, ma non per questo meno preoccupato. Solo quattro persone che fanno parte del suo passato potrebbero esserne responsabili - e Strike sa che ciascuno di loro sarebbe capace di questa e altre indicibili brutalità. La polizia con...
LETHAL WHITE is both a gripping mystery and the page-turning next instalment in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
-----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 ...
LETHAL WHITE is both a gripping mystery and the page-turning next instalment in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Investigating a crime that a troubled young man witnessed as a child, Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the back streets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside in the fourth installment of Galbraith's bestselling series.
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