The Cuckoo's Calling ~ Review and SPOILERS

[rattlesnakeroot]

Let's use this post for SPOILERS about The Cuckoo's Calling.

Or if you prefer, there is thread on TheHPN for more in-depth discussion:
The Cuckoo's Calling - Spoilers and ReviewsI finished reading The Cuckoo's Calling last night, and I was not disappointed. I thought the book was a successful mystery, although perhaps a little repetitious at times

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[anonymous]

SPOILER POST

I´ve recently finished the book and I can say that I´ve really liked it. But I have a few facts that I think I´ve missed (bc I don´t think JKR left them unfinished)and I would like to clear them up.

1) First of all; Lula spent great part of the very last day of her short life phoning her uncle Tony (in the end it is explained that she phoned him to ask him sth her mother Lady Bristow talled her about his elder brother, Charlie) and her boyfriend Evan. Why did she repeatedly phoned Evan? Is it explained in the book?

2) Why is the book called "The Cuckoo´s calling"? I mean, I know Guy Somé, the fashion designer, used to call her like that, but, apart from that, I don´t find a conection between it and the whole story. Is there a fact that I´ve missed?

3) Why did Lula wrote a will? Did she know she was going to die?

4) Finally, have Guy Somé, Deeby Macc,Kieran Kolovas-Jones, Ciara Porter and why not Evan Duffield, lied in their testimonies or took part in anything related whit the case?. My doubt comes because I was expecting some extra information about this characters at the end of the book but I didn´t find anything interesting about them when Strike explains his thoughts and the result of his investigation to John Bristow. Maybe I´ve missed sth, or maybe I´ve was just expecting sth that had nothing to do with the case itself.

Not a native speaker, SO I offer my apologies for my basic English and my mistakes. I hope someone can answer my doubts.

Re: SPOILER POST

[anonymous]

The title is also a bird reference, of course. Lula Landry's nickname is "Cuckoo" and she literally falls out of the nest - I mean, her apartment. In nature, a cuckoo is a bird that displaces eggs in other birds nests, and we are told that Lula was adopted as a replacement child for her brother Charlie, who also died from a fall into a quarry. There are many references to clocks as well - Strike notes that the whole building where Lula Landry lives is like one of those cuckoo clocks with people going in and out of little doors. In one of the bars where he meets someone, Strike sees a "wall of clocks," and the murderer, Bristow, fools his mother by changing the time on her alarm clock.