Why did I love this book?
Troubled Blood has layers and layers. As with the other Cormoran Strike novels, Troubled Blood is infused with the grittiness and craziness of real life and how it impacts the main characters as they keep plugging onwards.
Cormoran and Robin are pulled in multiple directions by family, friends, and coworkers, their own traumas bleeding over and exposing their own all while trying to solve a thirty-plus-year-old missing person's case. The juggling act, especially when having to deal with Cormoran's aunt's approaching death, is heart-wrenching.
Some of the uncovered crimes and how society dealt with the mental issues back at that time are also eye-opening. Loved how the author used the concept of how we make assumptions about certain roles and how they can blind us to so much to what would otherwise be obvious. Tons of food for thought!
2 authors picked Troubled Blood as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021
'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian
'Magnificent' Sunday Times
'Finely honed, superbly constructed' Daily Mail
'Terrific' Daily Express
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 forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of…