When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock.Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war.Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems.And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Forlag: Little, Brown Udgivelsesår: 2012 Sider: 503 Sprog: Engelsk
I den lille engelske by er der pludselig en tom plads i sognerådet. Forskellige kandidater er i spil, og byens ellers så pæne indbyggere viser sig fra deres værste side, og overraskende artigheder kommer for en dag Titel: Den tomme plads Forfatter: Joanne K. Rowling Forlag: Gyldendal Udgivelsesår: 2015 Sider: 519 Sprog: Dansk
Forlag: Bogklubben 12 Bøger Type: Hardcover
Krimi og spændingsroman om privatdetektiven Cormoran Strike og hans assistent Robin Ellacott. Robin modtager en pakke med et afhugget kvindeben, og sagen peger direkte ind i Strikes egen fortid. Flere tidligere bekendte kan være gerningsmanden, og Strike må genbesøge traumatiske perioder af sit liv, mens han og Robin forsøger at løse mysteriet før flere overgreb finder sted. Historien skildrer både den brutale efterforskning, de psykologiske konsekvenser af vold og stalking samt udviklingen i relationen mellem Strike og Robin, der står ved et vendepunkt i både deres professionelle samarbejde og privatliv. Type: Hardcover Dansk udgave af "Career of Evil", tredje bind i Robert Galbraiths serie om den britiske privatdetektiv Cormoran Strike og hans assistent Robin Ellacott. Romanen åbner, da Robin modtager en mystisk pakke på kontoret, som viser sig at indeholde et afhugget kvindeben. Polit
Krimi. Den forhutlede privatdetektiv Cormoran Strike ser sammen med vikarierende kontordame Robin Ellacott på en sag om formodet selvmord i Londons bedre kredse. Strike og Robin viser sig at være et godt makkerpar, der forstår at komme bag facaderne Titel: Gøgens kalden Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: krimi Sammendrag: Privatdetektiven Cormoran Strike bliver kontaktet af en afdød models bror, der nægter at tro på politiets konklusion om selvmord. Strike, en krigsveteran med et skrantende detektivbureau, og hans nye assistent Robin Ellacott begynder at grave i dødsfaldet. Sporene fører dem ind i Londons eksklusive kvarterer, modehuse og natteliv, hvor berømmelse, penge og hemmelige forbindelser spiller en afgørende rolle. Bag glansbilledet finder de konflikter, misundelse og løgne, som gradvis afslører, hvad der virkelig skete på balkonen i Mayfair. "Gøgens kalden" er første bog i serien om Corm
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 Forlag: Mulholland Books Udgivelsesår: 2014 Sider: 455 Sprog: Engelsk
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, thelegendary 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 to man Titel: The cuckooś calling Genre: Krimi Sammendrag: When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has comm
