“It was the detail of the pink blanket that kept nagging at him. “Strike’s incurable predilection for getting to the root of puzzling incidents tended to inconvenience him quite as much as other people,” writes Galbraith. And the child, who might have been murdered, and who Strike can’t forget, despite the fact that nobody is paying him to do any detecting on this one. Still with me? In what Galbraith’s alter ego JK Rowling calls “one of the most challenging books I’ve written”, there is also murder – although it comes a significant way into this 650-page doorstopper – horses, art and lots of disguises and undercover work. As the mystery elements wind themselves into ever more tangled knots, so the romantic side of the plot also unspools
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