Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)

by Robert Galbraith

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

• ISBN10: 0316498939
• ISBN13: 9780316498937
• Publish Date: 15 September 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Mulholland Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 944
• Language: English

Reviews

[Alex Bloodfire]

A fabulously brilliant book, in fact one of the best I have ever read.

Storyline is addictive, wonderfully thought out characters, and brilliant plots.

JK Rowling, you have done us proud!

[ambiancereads]

Absolutely obsessed with this series. This one was a little slower, I found that since it was a cold case this time that the plot seemed to move slower It didn't have the same urgency as the others. Though I enjoyed how there was more to the relationship between Cormoran and Robin. Dying for the next one in the series!