Troubled Blood

Cormoran Strike, Book 5

De: Robert Galbraith

Narrado por: Robert Glenister

Shortlisted for the Audiobook of the Year Award at the British Book Awards

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by 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 40 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.

Robin herself is 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.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Robert Galbraith (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A blistering piece of crime writing." (Sunday Times)

"The work of a master storyteller." (Daily Telegraph)

"Highly inventive storytelling." (Guardian)

Brilliant!

Amazing intricate story and beautiful ending. It was a great listen thanks to the brilliant performance of Robert Glenister.

MORE PLEASE!!

These are some of the best books I have ever listened to. Extremely well written with many intricate characters which keeps you captivated all through the story.
The narrator does a superb job of voicing the characters leaving you never doubting who is talking.
Simply brilliant!! Please please continue the series.

Brilliant brilliant brilliant!

Love this series - the excellent detail and development of every character and scene is captivating, helped along by
the superb narrator who brings this outstanding series to life.
Best series I have ever listened to.

Another deep and light study of humanity

I loved this book. I got immersed, again, into the many facets of the characters, threads are woven naturally. Life and death, love and hate, friendship, ridicule... The crimes reveal the everchanging hues of humanity, fragile, heroic, pathetic, deranged. Another handbook on human relations from which you emerge a better person. Well done.
Like the four other novels, I first got the audiobook, read by Robert Glenister, and I really love the way he renders the voices. Robin and Strike are vivid, alive in their own right.

Imperfect nature

The STRIKE series are the best private detective books I have ever read or listened to. The characters are very real and Robert Glenister is an amazing narrator, so many accents so many different people covered flawlessly
Can’t wait for the next one though I realise these books must take a huge amount of time to organise and write
When a character like Strike appears it is hard not to imagine him as real
Thank you RG or should I say JKR

Brilliant

Mr Glenister is excellent.
Engaging and challenging plot that requires the reader to pay attention.
The twist and reveal were as always brilliant and the way the details were brought together impressed in their intricacy.
The beautiful writing and complex story always satisfy.
Keep the story alive please.

Splendid performance

Best narrator I’ve heard since I don’t know when. Accents and all, it’s like you’re actually there!

I had no idea

Throughout this book, until the very end, I had no idea who the killer was. For me, that's a sign of a successful crime novel. It's a long book, but I purposefully didn't check how much was left of the recording because I didn't want to know how close Strike and Robin were to catching the killer, but rather I wanted to savour it. Great cold case.

Big, complex and rich with detail

I loved this book. I think it’s better than the previous Strike novels (although I really enjoyed them too) because there was less of the Matthew and Charlotte shenanigans going on, and intruding into the story and bringing the characters down than there was in the other books. I love the incidental details that the author includes, that really embellish the story and help to paint a picture of the locations, the characters and helped to involve you in their lives and connect you to them. You spent time getting to know them, and I felt that enriched the story and made you care about them. I had to concentrate in order to remember all the names of the people and events of the past that were described, because these elements return as part of the clues that are investigated, but it wasn’t too difficult. I was amazed sometimes at the amount of apparent knowledge of a range of different subject matter that was described. The author must have spent a lot of time researching all manner of things, and it’s paid off because it (on the whole) comes across as believable and authentic. There are lots of characters, but thankfully Robert glenister does a terrific job of creating a unique voice for most of them, such that you always know who is talking. He is great at all the regional accents and does a pretty good job of the female voices. I couldn’t imagine anyone better to narrate this series. I hope there will be another book to come, but I expect that the author probably wants a good long break after writing this epic. I will return to this book again soon to enjoy the ride and the people in it. Loved it.

Great novel

I love JKR detective novels, Strike & Robin are a fantastic duo. Cant wait to read the next one!