At times you might feel as you did when reading the Harry Potter books, particularly later in the series, when they got longer and looser. all of this is exhaustively described and occasionally exhausting to hear. Lethal White is an old-fashioned novel, by which I mean that it is 650 pages long and that few of its protagonists’ activities, emotions and motivations are left to the reader’s imagination. With a mystery this big and baggy, it can be hard to keep track of who has done what and why. He is just as happy to send up the self-righteous anti-capitalists of the left as the clueless twits of the right. Because Rowling is so straightforwardly liberal, it’s a pleasant surprise to find that Galbraith is an equal-opportunity satirist. Lethal White, the fourth Cormoran Strike mystery, is a big, stuffed-to-the-brim, complicated bouillabaisse of a book, not least because of the busy inner lives of its protagonists.
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