The Cuckoo's Calling is the debut mystery novel by J K Rowling inder the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, where she introduces to the character of Cormoran Strike. This book is the story of the death of a young supermodel Lula Landry, nick named Cuckoo, who falls to her death from her balcony. It is assumed by all that her death is a suicide. But her brother calls in a private detective Cormoran to investigate the case. Cormoran Strike, one-legged shrewd, military policeman turned private detective, is not doing very well in his new career. Propelled by his desperate need for money and aided by his lovely idealistic secretary Robin Ellacott, Strike sets out to investigate this case. As he plunges into the world of celebrity people and London's rich, the readers are introduced to a cast of characters, all of them being the suspects. As Strike unravels the threads of the mystery of Landry's fall, read it for an unusual and entertaining mystery novel.