Thursday, August 7, 2014

NOT YOUR HARRY POTTER



A BUZZARD BOOK REVIEW
SO MANY BOOKS - SO LITTLE TIME


J.K. Rowling has a begun a mystery series by the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith.    It features a hard boiled detective in the manner of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. 

In the first of the series The Cuckoo’s Calling we are introduced to Comoran Strike, a thirty-five year old Afghan war veteran that lost his leg in combat, and his newly acquired secretary Robin Ellacott.  

Anyone that is a fan of classic Dashell Hammett, Micky Spillane and Chandler will fall right in to this updated version of Rowling’s  new British Private Eye. 

This in not your Harry Potter; but a hard drinking, hard smoking, hard fighting one legged private eye and his sidekick secretary.





If you like mysteries you might give this a try.

the Ol’Buzzard


    

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