It is clear she could not have heard it from two floors below through the triple glazed windows, so her statement had initially been dismissed. Strike is especially intrigued by the statement of Tansy Bestigui, Lula's downstairs neighbour, who says she heard Lula fighting with a man and then falling from her balcony. Each character recounts their recollections of Lula as Strike comes to realize that the circumstances of her death are more ambiguous than he had imagined. However, because he needs the money, he proceeds with the investigation, interviewing Lula Landry's security guard, personal driver, uncle, friends and designer. Strike is initially sceptical about John Bristow's claims, having read extensive media coverage following the case, and he is unwilling to reopen such a thoroughly investigated case. Although Strike only hires her for one week, she turns out to be much more competent than he expected, and they end up extending her stay. Robin has just become engaged to her longtime boyfriend Matthew, with a wedding set for December. Strike also meets Robin Ellacott, who has been sent to be his temporary secretary despite the fact he can barely afford her. Bristow's other sibling, a brother named Charlie, had been a schoolmate of Strike before his death, which came when he fell into a quarry while riding on his bicycle. Bristow wants Strike to investigate his sister's supposed suicide.
At that point, Strike is hired by John Bristow, the adoptive brother of supermodel Lula Landry who had fallen from her balcony three months previously.
In 2010, Cormoran Strike, a private investigator who is an ex- SIB investigator who lost part of a leg in a bombing in Afghanistan, and also is the illegitimate son of a famous rock star (by an affair with a notorious groupie), is broke, and his birth father's business agent is calling in the loan that he gave to Strike to open his office.
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