Still, Leonora would like her husband found, even if he does serially cheat on her. A turd that stinks of bitterness and vengeance, splat. This has happened at the same time as a manuscript for his latest work, Bombyx Mori, a thinly disguised and savage attack on everyone Owen sees as being responsible for the downward spiral of his career, lands like a turd on the well-tended lawn of literary London. I don’t know why Dolan isn’t more of a household name maybe it’s because she’s too good, her range so great, she’s such a human chameleon, that people simply don’t realise it’s her.)Īnyway, Leonora’s husband, Owen Quine, a novelist who never lived up to the potential of his first book, has disappeared. (Leonora is played – brilliantly, as ever – by Monica Dolan. Clients can even be turned away they take on only the cases that interest them, such as that of Leonora Quine. Holliday Grainger’s character, Robin Venetia Ellacott, PA/PI-in-training, has been retained. People are actually turning up, wanting his services. A welcome one and very compelling, too, as played by Tom Burke.Īfter Strike’s success in the first series, The Cuckoo’s Calling, things are looking up at his Denmark Street offices. Cormoran Strike – the first fictional detective whose name sounds like the cause of a plane crash, a low-flying plane, over the sea … Anyway, the lugubrious gumshoe has become a feature of Sunday evenings.
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