Title Troubled Blood - A Strike Novel
Author. Robert Galbraith
Publisher Sphere - An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
This is the fifth book in the series created by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. It certainly is correctly referred to as a ‘novel’ with all of 927 pages. It is long: it is complex and there are sequences of events that move on at a fair pace. It did need to be divided into six parts as well as chapters.
I have heard it said that it is too long and needed a good edit. I don't agree. It switches from one narrative to another with ease and from one location to the next. The locations, for me, are a character in there own right. It really earns the title of novel due to it’s many stories and events interwoven in what we are led to believe is the main thread.
Dr. Margot Bamborough’s daughter, Anna, makes the decision to find out what happened to her mother who disappeared forty years ago. Dennis Creed was a serial killer at the time and was a prime suspect for Margot. A police investigation brings more interesting characters into the book and other facets as well.
The covers give no hint of what you are about to read and that is good. Obviously I know about this series and so it was going to be about detectives investigating, but it is so much more than that. It is about people: it is about relationships good, bad and some with potential. They go through the whole spectrum of decent, of strong love, paranoia and death. That's what I loved, the whole gambit of emotions. It deals with topical matters that spring off the page and put me on edge. It doesn't need anything else.
Attention to detail is astonishing. The characters we know enough about and no more. It speaks of and brings freshly into our minds past feelings, past events and characters mentioned in previous stories. If that was not enough; it is well written. I enjoyed it, mammoth read or not!
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