The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith 
 Rating: (Reviewed in January 2017) 
 "Though Robin Ellacott's twenty-five years of life had seen their moments of drama and incident, she had never before woken up in the certain knowledge that she would remember the coming day for as long as she lived." - Part One, Chapter 1 
 This novel is a good debut into mystery novels for J.K. Rowling. While the comings and goings of the victim and her entourage are slowly revealed through numerous interviews, the clues to the identity of the killer are hidden in plain sight. It is possible for the reader to piece it together before Strike exposed, but I can't say I worked out every details of the crime on my own. 
 What I liked: 
 - Robin's enthusiasm for detective work 
 - Cormoran's keen attention to details 
 - Cormoran using favours from old acquaintances and working the case without help from the police 
 What I didn't like: 
 - the pace is slower than what I'm used to, but I was hooked early so it didn't matter so much 
 "People liked to talk; there were very few exceptions; the question was how you made them do it. Some [...] were amenable to alcohol; others liked a spotlight; and then there were those who merely needed proximity to another conscious human being. A subsection of humanity would become loquacious only on one favorite subject: it might be their own innocence, or somebody else's guilt; it might be their collection of pre-war biscuit tins; or it might, as in the case of Ursula May, be the hopeless passion of a plain secretary." - Part Two, Chapter 11 
 "He had hoped to spot the flickering shadow of a murderer as he turned the file's pages, but instead it was the ghost of Lula herself who emerged, gazing up at him, as victims of violent crimes sometimes did, through the detritus of their interrupted lives." - Part Three, Chapter 1