Cormoran Strike rend visite à sa famille en Cornouailles quand une inconnue l'approche pour lui demander de l'aide. Elle aimerait retrouver sa mère, Margot Bamborough, disparue en 1974 dans des circonstances non élucidées. Strike n'a encore jamais traité une affaire classée, mais, intrigué, il accepte, malgré les chances plutôt minces de résoudre une affaire vieille de quarante ans. Le dossier s'ajoute donc aux nombreux cas sur lesquels Strike et son associée Robin travaillent déjà, au moment où cette dernière est empêtrée dans un divorce inextricable. Les sentiments qu'elle éprouve pour Strike ne facilitent pas non plus l'enquête.Ce cinquième volume de la série des Cormoran Strike est incontestablement le meilleur roman de Robert Galbraith à ce jour.Une intrigue à la fois riche, originale et fascinante. À livre ouvert.Robert Galbraith est le pseudonyme de J.K. Rowling, autrice mondialement connue de la série Harry Potter et d'Une place à prendre (Grasset, 2012). Les cinq premiers volumes des aventures du détective Cormoran Strike se sont vendus à des millions d'exemplaires à travers le monde et l'ont imposé comme un des nouveaux maîtres du polar.Traduit de l'anglais par Florianne Vidal.
Lorsque le célèbre mannequin Lula Landry est trouvée morte, défenestrée, dans un quartier chic londonien, l'affaire est vite classée. Suicide. Jusqu'au jour où John Bristow, le frère de la victime, frappe à la porte du détective privé Cormoran Strike. Cet ex-lieutenant de l'armée, revenu d'Afghanistan amputé d'une jambe, est au bout du rouleau : sa carrière de détective est au point mort et sa vie privée, un naufrage. Aidé par une jeune intérimaire finaude, virtuose de l'Internet, il reprend l'enquête. De boîtes de nuit branchées en palaces pour rock stars, Strike va passer de l'autre côté du miroir glamour de la mode et du people pour plonger dans un gouffre de secrets, de trahisons, et de vengeances.Robert Galbraith est le pseudonyme de J.K. Rowling.On se régale vraiment. Nul doute que la créatrice de Harry Potter a non seulement du métier, mais aussi une inspiration tous azimuts. Delphine Peras, Lire.
Billy se rend chez Cormoran Strike pour lui parler d'un meurtre dont il a été témoin quand il était enfant : il aurait vu une fillette se faire étrangler. Mais le jeune homme, qui souffre d'une maladie mentale, se sauve avant que Strike ait pu l'interroger plus longuement. Le célèbre détective privé et sa partenaire Robin Ellacott décident néanmoins de prendre Billy au sérieux et commencent leurs recherches.
Depuis les bas-fonds de Londres jusqu'aux plus hautes sphères du Parlement britannique, leurs investigations vont les mener sur un chemin sinueux.
Avec Blanc mortel, nouvel épisode haletant des aventures de Cormoran Strike et Robin Ellacott, Robert Galbraith nous plonge dans une enquête labyrinthique où la morale se dérobe à mesure que l'on pense approcher de la vérité.
En arrivant au bureau un matin, Robin la jeune assistante du détective privé Cormoran Strike trouve un colis qui lui est personnellement adressé. À l'intérieur : la jambe tranchée d'une femme. Pour Cormoran Strike, seuls quatre individus sont capables d'une telle atrocité. Quatre noms tout droit sortis de son propre passé. Persuadés que la police fait fausse route, Strike et Robin se lancent dans une enquête périlleuse, traquant un tueur psychopathe et fétichiste aux motivations insoupçonnables...
Roman noir d'un réalisme saisissant, La Carrière du mal nous plonge dans les ténèbres des perversions les plus troublantes. Thriller d'une densité psychologique rare, il met aussi en scène un homme et une femme arrivés à la croisée des chemins.
Les enquêtes de Cormoran Strike sont actuellement en cours d'adaptation pour la BBC.
Robert Galbraith est le pseudonyme de J.K. Rowling.
Une intrigue diabolique. TéléStar.
Le détective privé Cormoran Strike, assisté de Robin Ellacott, enquête sur la disparition de l'écrivain Owen Quine. Celui-ci venait de terminer un manuscrit critiquant vertement ses connaissances et dont la publication ferait scandale à coup sûr.
PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES ''One of crime''s most engaging duos'' Guardian ''Magnificent'' Sunday Times ''Finely honed, superbly constructed'' Daily Mail ''Terrific'' Daily Express ''A blistering piece of crime writing'' Sunday Times ''The work of a master storyteller'' Daily Telegraph ''Unputdownable'' Daily Express ''Highly inventive storytelling'' Guardian ''Superb . . . an ingenious whodunnit'' Sunday Mirror ''Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'' Independent ''Outrageously entertaining'' Financial Times
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. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike. 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 decades old can prove to be deadly . . . A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, Troubled Blood is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet. Praise for the Strike series: ''A blistering piece of crime writing'' Sunday Times ''The work of a master storyteller '' Daily Telegraph '' Unputdownable '' Daily Express ''Highly inventive storytelling'' Guardian ''Superb . . . an ingenious whodunnit'' Sunday Mirror ''Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'' Independent ''Outrageously entertaining '' Financial Times
When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.
Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger . . .
A gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London - from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho - The Cuckoo's Calling is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series 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... A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. You will not be able to put this book down.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he 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 realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.
And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . .
A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.
Une nuit d'hiver, dans un quartier chic de Londres, le célèbre mannequin Lula Landry est trouvée morte, défenestrée. Suicide. Affaire classée. Jusqu'au jour où l'avocat John Bristow, frère de la victime, frappe à la porte du détective privé Cormoran Strike.
Strike est au bout du rouleau : ex-lieutenant dans l'armée, il a perdu une jambe en Afghanistan, sa carrière de détective est au point mort et sa vie privée un naufrage. Aidé par une jeune recrue intérimaire virtuose de l'Internet, Strike est chargé d'enquêter sur la mort de Lula.
De boîtes de nuit branchées en hôtels pour rock-stars assaillies par les paparazzi, en passant par un centre de désintoxication et le manoir où se meurt la mère adoptive de Lula, Strike va passer de l'autre côté du miroir glamour de la mode, dont les reflets chatoyants dissimulent un gouffre de secrets, de trahisons, de manoeuvres inspirées par la vengeance.
Avec son intrigue haletante et sa galerie de personnages plus vrais que nature, L'Appel du Coucou, premier volet des aventures du détective Strike, emprunte à la fois au classicisme d'un Chandler, d'une Agatha Christie ou d'une P.D. James. Un coup de maître.
'I seen a kid killed . . . He strangled it, up by the horse.' 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 story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency - set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike's own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been - Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much more tricky than that . . . The most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet, LETHAL WHITE is both a gripping mystery and a page-turning next instalment in the ongoing story of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott.
Une nuit d'hiver, dans un quartier chic de Londres, le célèbremannequin Lula Landry est trouvéemorte, défenestrée. L'affaire est vite classée : suicide. Jusqu'au jour où l'avocat John Briscow, frère de la victime, frappe à la porte du détective privé Cormoran Strike. Strike est au bout du rouleau : ex-lieutenant dans l'armée, il a perdu une jambe en Afghanistan, sa carrière de détective est au pointmort et sa vie privée un naufrage. Aidé par une jeune recrue intérimaire virtuose de l'Internet, Strike est chargé d'enquêter sur la mort de Lula. De boîtes de nuit branchées en hôtels pour rock-stars, en passant par un centre de désintoxication et lemanoir où semeurt lamère adoptive de Lula, Strike va passer de l'autre côté du miroir glamour de lamode, dont les reflets chatoyants dissimulent un gouffre de secrets, de trahisons et demanoeuvres inspirées par la vengeance. Ce roman,mettant en scène le détective Cormoran Strike, est le premier tome d'une série dont le deuxième volume, Le Ver à soie, est paru en 2014 et le troisième, La Carrière dumal, est paru en 2015.
PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES ''One of crime''s most engaging duos'' Guardian ''Magnificent'' Sunday Times ''Finely honed, superbly constructed'' Daily Mail ''Terrific'' Daily Express ''A blistering piece of crime writing'' Sunday Times ''The work of a master storyteller'' Daily Telegraph ''Unputdownable'' Daily Express ''Highly inventive storytelling'' Guardian ''Superb . . . an ingenious whodunnit'' Sunday Mirror ''Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'' Independent ''Outrageously entertaining'' Financial Times
Une nuit d'hiver, dans un quartier chic de Londres, le célèbre mannequin Lula Landry est trouvée morte, défenestrée. Suicide. Affaire classée. Jusqu'au jour où l'avocat John Bristow, frère de la victime, frappe à la porte du détective privé Cormoran Strike.
Strike est au bout du rouleau : ex-lieutenant dans l'armée, il a perdu une jambe en Afghanistan, sa carrière de détective est au point mort et sa vie privée un naufrage. Aidé par une jeune recrue intérimaire virtuose de l'Internet, Strike est chargé d'enquêter sur la mort de Lula.
De boîtes de nuit branchées en hôtels pour rock-stars assaillies par les paparazzi, en passant par un centre de désintoxication et le manoir où se meurt la mère adoptive de Lula, Strike va passer de l'autre côté du miroir glamour de la mode, dont les reflets chatoyants dissimulent un gouffre de secrets, de trahisons, de manoeuvres inspirées par la vengeance.
Avec son intrigue haletante et sa galerie de personnages plus vrais que nature, L'Appel du Coucou, premier volet des aventures du détective Strike, emprunte à la fois au classicisme d'un Chandler, d'une Agatha Christie ou d'une P.D. James. Un coup de maître.
'Hugely absorbing. . . the best Strike novel yet' SUNDAY MIRROR ----- 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 story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency - set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike's own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been - Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much more tricky than that . . . The most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet, LETHAL WHITE is both a gripping mystery and a page-turning next instalment in the ongoing story of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. ----- PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES: 'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years ' MARK BILLINGHAM 'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Unputdownable. . . Irresistible' SUNDAY TIMES 'Will keep you up all night' OBSERVER 'A thoroughly enjoyable classic' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS
Als das berühmte Model Lula Landry von ihrem schneebedeckten Balkon im Londoner Stadtteil Mayfair in den Tod stürzt, steht für die ermittelnden Beamten schnell fest, dass es Selbstmord war. Der Fall scheint abgeschlossen. Doch Lulas Bruder hat Zweifel - ein Privatdetektiv soll für ihn die Wahrheit ans Licht bringen.
Now a major BBC drama as part of the Cormoran Strike series 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... A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is the third in the number one bestselling series featuring Cormoran Strike and his assistant, Robin Ellacott.
B>La novela más épica de Robert Galbraith hasta el momento. Blanco letal nos ofrece un misterio cautivador y un nuevo episodio muy emocionante en la historia de Cormoran Strike y Robin Ellacott.br>br>/b>«Vi cómo mataban a una cría... Cómo la estrangulaban.»br>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 niño, Strike se queda perplejo. Si bien Billy tiene obvios problemas mentales y no logra recordar muchos detalles concretos, hay algo sincero en él y en su historia. Pero, antes de que Strike pueda hacerle más preguntas, Billy, presa del pánico, sale corriendo de su oficina.br>br>Tratando de llegar al fondo de la historia de Billy, Strike y Robin Ellacott, su antigua asistente y ahora socia de la agencia, emprenden un camino sinuoso que los lleva a través de las callejuelas de Londres hasta las salas más recónditas y secretas del Parlamento, pasando por una hermosa pero siniestra casa señorial perdida en el campo.br>br>Y mientras la investigación se vuelve cada vez más laberíntica, la vida de Strike es cualquier cosa menos sencilla: su nueva fama como detective privado lleva implícita la incapacidad de operar pasando desapercibido y el ambiente en la oficina es más tenso que nunca. Robin es indispensable para Strike, pero su relación personal se complica día a día.br>br>b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION/b>br>br>b>An unsettling cold case investigation ensnares Cormoran Strike and his partner in a web of dangerous secrets in this #1 New York Times bestseller -- "Rowling''s wizardry as a writer is on fulsome display" (USA Today)./b> br>br>When a troubled young man named Billy asks Cormoran Strike to help him investigate a crime he witnessed as a child, the private eye is left deeply troubled. 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. br>Trying to get to the bottom of Billy''s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott -- once his assistant, now a partner in the agency -- set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.br>br>And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike''s own life is far from straightforward. His newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been; Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that.br>br>The most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet, Lethal White is "addictive, murderous fun" for British mystery lovers and crime fiction fans alike (Vox).
B>Un thriller épico, ameno y apasionante que ha vendido 5 millones de ejemplares en un año en Reino Unido.br>br>/b>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 extrañas circunstancias.br>A pesar de que nunca se ha enfrentado a un caso ocurrido tantos años atrás y de ser consciente de las escasas posibilidades de éxito, Cormoran Strike y su compañera en la agencia, Robin Ellacott, que sigue atrapada entre un divorcio tormentoso y sus sentimientos hacia Cormoran, acaban aceptando el caso.br>br>A medida que se van sumergiendo en la investigación, los dos detectives se topan con una historia terriblemente compleja poblada de cartas de tarot, un asesino en serie psicópata y testigos que son poco de fiar. Porque incluso un hecho ocurrido hace décadas puede ser mortal.br>br>b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION/b>br>br>b>A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, Troubled Blood is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet./b>br>br>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.br> br>Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.br> br>As Strike and Robin investigate Margots 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 decades old can prove to be deadly . . .
Ce roman policier au suspense palpitant est le quatrième de la série, Les Enquêtes de Cormoran Strike. On y suit les aventures du célèbre détective privé et de son assistante, Robin Ellacott, devenue sa partenaire à l'agence, enquêtant au sujet d'un meurtre, dont leur client pense avoir été témoin dans son enfance. Une intrigue complexe où se mêlent investigation policière, manoeuvres politiques et jeu du chat et de la souris entre Cormoran et Robin.
