Robert Galbraith/ aka J.K. Rowling's debut mystery novel about detective Cormoran Strike was a good read. As I've come to expect from anything Rowling writes, the characters in this book are three-dimensional and diverse, and by the end of the book you feel you know the main ones personally. I felt that the pieces of the mystery all came together well, making me satisfied with the ending and I enjoyed my reading throughout. The only real criticism I have of The Cuckoo's Calling is that it did not have the kind of "edge of your seat"/"can't put the book down" suspense I've come to expect from so many mystery novels. I don't think the book particularly needed this suspense, but it did seem to kind of just move along... all at the same pace until the last 60 or 70 pages. It wasn't hard for me to put the book down to go do something else, and pick back up later. This may be a minor thing for a lot of people, and as I've said, it didn't bother me. Still, I think most mystery readers would be looking for those cliffhangers and suspenseful passages. I look forward to reading the other two Cormoran Strike books!