JK Rowling has been revealed as the pseudonymous author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, a crime novel recently published under the name “Robert Galbraith”.
The book won near-universal praise from critics in April when it was released, with Publishers Weekly saying it combined “a complex and compelling sleuth and an equally well-formed and unlikely assistant with a baffling crime” to make a “stellar debut”; readers on GoodReads.com call it “a mature, realistic take on an often-done genre” with “some of the most endearingly likeable characters in the genre”; and AustCrime said “There’s really only one problem with books as good as The Cuckoo’s Calling. Waiting for the next one in the series.”
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