How long does it take to read The Cuckoo's Calling?
The Cuckoo's Calling by J. K. Rowling takes about 8 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Cormoran Strike
Next: The Silkworm
About 8 hours 48 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2013. 480 pages, about 132,000 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
Subjects: private investigators, murder, investigation, veterans, Afghan War, fiction
