The Running Grave: Cormoran Strike Book 7

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Eight months into the ­relationship, [Murphy] should surely have stopped pretending he’d rather watch a play than have a decent meal followed by sex.

I have such a vivid picture of Strike and Robin in my head that I don’t want them to be overwritten by actors playing their parts. For example the same character’s relevance to Strike is mentioned in two separate chapters, yet they’re completely irrelevant to the story (do they really need to be mentioned at all?I especially enjoy Colonel Graves' upper class accent, with "hyar" for here, "yerse" for yes, and (my favorite) "marriage huana" for marijuana. When the two partners dig a bit further( there is pun here), some dark and sinister details come up, including a series of unnatural deaths.

I imagine this whole stretch of the book is going to be tough on rereads (like the forest parts of Deathly Hallows or when Harry and Ron fall out in Goblet). In a rare feat, Galbraith combines a complex and compelling sleuth and an equally well-formed and unlikely assistant with a baffling crime in his stellar debut . Der Vater eines UHC-Mitglieds wendet sich indes an das Privatermittlerteam Cormoran Strike und seine Geschäftspartnerin Robin Ellacott, weil er seinen Sohn Will aus den Fängen dieser Sekte befreien möchte.However, Pirbright is very soon found dead, and though initially it seems to be treated as a suicide by the authorities, Strike has very strong hunches this may not be the case, and begins pulling at strings to piece together connections between ex-members in an attempt to explain why. Das Thema "I-Ching", eine Art chinesisches Orakel, taucht nur rudimentär in der Sekte auf, wie eine Art Accessoires, aber so richtig was angefangen hat Rowling damit nicht. Eher wie ein strenges Erziehungslager für Erwachsene, aber nicht wie eine richtige Psychosekte, aber vielleicht war das auch nicht beabsichtigt.

As a result of their previous successes, business partners Strike and Robin now employ three contract investigators and an office manager.

I admit the possibility” – the words that somehow embody the spirit of human beings, irrespective of the kind of belief that drives you, irrespective of the fact that you can be an atheist or a skeptic, there comes a time in everyone’s life that you want to hold on to something, some kind of HOPE to live on.

She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him).Mostly, when I read this series, I think of it as being mostly focused on Robin and her evolution as a character³, but this book seems to talk about Strike’s own inner landscape much more than previously. Another exemplary work by the author even though there was many a time where I felt the details were way too exhaustive to the point of boring for me, especially the parts inside the Chapman farm, Yes, Strike series is not your typical adrenaline racing thrillers, we all know that and the description does get the imagination running on all tangents but I would have loved it equally with a story more tightly wound and bound.