If you are considering this book, I highly recommend the audio book version. The narrator was awesome and highly entertaining. 
 I was worried up front about this book since I had tried J.K. Rowling's other adult fiction previously and could never get into it. So I went into this not expecting much. Boy was I surprised. I really enjoyed this mystery and the twists and turns it took. I'm a big fan of mysteries like this- investigator has few pieces to the puzzle and has to sort through the big picture to find the other clues. So this is a slow burn type of book and can be a bit drawn out at times but the pay off makes up for it. This was a book where the chapter would end and I would think "Ok, one more chapter..." and then suddenly it was 4 AM and I had to cut myself off. The mystery itself is very well done and I couldn't guess the whole ending, which is always fun. And Strike and Robin are lovely characters that I couldn't help but root for. I really enjoyed this and am very excited to listen to more of Strike's adventures.