Bad blood

Cormoran Strike visits relatives in Cornwall. There, a strange woman approaches the private detective, who is back in the headlines after catching the Shacklewell Ripper and solving the murder of Culture Minister Jasper Chiswell, and asks him to find her mother, who mysteriously disappeared in 1974. Strike has never investigated cold cases, let alone ones forty years old; the chances of success are almost zero. But he is intrigued by the mysterious disappearance of young Dr. Margot Bamborough and takes on the case, which turns out to be perhaps the most baffling of his career. With his loyal assistant Robin Ellacott, who has become a full partner in their agency, Strike searches for elusive eyewitnesses and interviews unreliable witnesses, seeks approaches to a maniacal killer who has been behind bars for four decades, disgustedly masters tarot card reading and astrological wisdom – and gradually becomes convinced that even cases as old as this can be lethally dangerous… First time in Russian!