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As new SIGNED First Edition. SIGNED by Galbraith (a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling) on the title page. Authenticity hologram sticker is affixed to the verso of the review page. First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Sphere, stated on copyright page. As new. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he’s gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published, it would ruin lives—meaning there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...