Troubled blood (Little, Brown Book Group)

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached aby 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...