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Is there any gratuitous nudity in this book?

If there was, you wouldn't be able to see it anyway!
JK, I am starting this book today and will let you know if there is anything that you might not want to share with your niece and nephew...
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"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.
You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.
Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith."
Ok, I am on chapter 14 of 46 and since I have read tons of detective novels, I think I already have it figured out - I won't say anything in case I am wrong, but I am just wondering why JK Rowling chose to write a detective novel, but didn't bring anything new to the table.
The book is is well written, and the protagonists are engaging, but this detective story has the same type of plot and characters as just about any other I have read:
1. The down and out detective who once commanded repect, but is now in poor physical and financial condition.
2. His crazy girl friend kicks him out, but he's too proud to admit how bad off he is to his friends, so he works and sleeps in his office, with occasional breaks for alcohol consumption.
3. Then, a smart, pretty girl who has always liked the idea of being a private eye, arrives as a temp for office work.
4. That same day, a timid, rich client gives him a high profile case to solve.
I don't know - I'm sure I will enjoy the story because I love detective novels, but perhaps I am being unfair and am expecting more since JK Rowing is such a beloved author.

If there was, you wouldn't be able to see it anyway!
Just kidding, I am starting this book today and will let you know if there is anything that y..."
Aaron, for both group read books this month,I would advise you to read the books before you pass it on to your niece and nephew because the subject matter of both books deals with violence, some crude language, some implied drug use and sexual situations that are not offensive to me, but you may feel otherwise.

Do you think that John Bristow was secretly in love with his adopted sister, Lula Landry?

This book was really slow going for me but I'm glad I gave it another chance as I read it in a couple of days.
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This book was really ..."
Now that I finished the book, I think John Bristow was (view spoiler)
We had a tie on the Poll this month, so I thought I would include both books - due to the lack of participation in the discussion of the last 2 monthly group reads. If the Group discussion continues to lag, I may consider referring the book (or books) elected to "Buddy Reads", where 2 or more individuals can discuss the books between themselves.