Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike Series #5)
The fifth in the Cormoran Strike series, this novel is about a 40-year-old cold case of a young woman's disappearance that Strike and his partner Robin are hired to investigate. The case seems impossible to solve from the beginning - many of the witnesses are dead, untraceable or have relocated to different continents, there is no forensic evidence, and to complicate matters further, the chief investigating officer was ill and therefore often relied on astrology to identify suspects and most of the witnesses have one or the other reason to lie and many have motives to hurt the disappeared doctor. If I didn't love the central characters Strike and Robin as I do, I might have found it difficult to finish this 900-page behemoth. It was simply too long. That is not to say it wasn't interesting; it was and it kept me in its grip. I think J.K. Rowling has become such an accomplished author and she can hold such complicated plots in her mind while writing that she does her best