Started off reading the book in pdf format on my laptop and finished it in audiobook. It was just so good that I couldn't step away. I'd get in my car to drive around town all day for work and find myself wondering, "Who is Cormoran Strike going to interview next?!" 
 "How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?" 
 First adult thriller and I couldn't be more pleased with it. Rowling Galbraith did a phenomenal job keeping the suspense up but without boring me with too much back story. With so many interviews based around the same victim (Lula Landry) you would think it might get dull. I never found myself straying from the story though or losing interest. If anything once it got to part four I was forcing myself not to just google what really happened (I didn't do it!). 
 There was little action in the story which I typically enjoy but the thing I like more than action is dialogue. I love the interaction of people and characters which this book read in a very interview format. Strike is a detective trying to figure out if a supermodel known as Lula really committed suicide - or it was framed to look as such. 
 "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." 
 The "story" that was told at the end really had me going. I know from previous experience with Rowlings writing to keep an eye on the little things. Things such as spilt water, broken vases, etc. all fit into a perfect puzzle Strike had pieced together. I was completely thrown for a loop when the actual facts came forward. (view spoiler)[ I never thought it would be John! I'm still confused why he was so close to getting away with it but he had to hire Strike to play the "loving brother" role...? I was thinking it would be Tony the uncle majority of the time as he was so spiteful. I should have known. (hide spoiler)]