Private detective Cormoran Strike, with a vibrant past, returns from Afghanistan with a missing leg. His father is a renowned rockstar, and Strike's small agency is barely afloat, handling mundane infidelity cases. However, everything changes when he hires Robin Ellacott as a receptionist, transforming their work into thrilling and perilous investigations, and ultimately forming an unstoppable partnership.

The death of a model from a Mayfair balcony sets off a intricate investigatio...