Reading Level
What is the reading level of The Cuckoo's Calling?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Cuckoo's Calling is 8th and 9th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
The Cuckoo's Calling
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 8 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 9 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 5 |
Reading Time
9 hrs 52 mins
How long to read The Cuckoo's Calling?
The estimated word count of The Cuckoo's Calling is 147,870 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 9 hrs 52 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 16 hrs 26 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 5 hrs 29 mins.
| The Cuckoo's Calling - 147,870 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 16 hrs 26 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 9 hrs 52 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 5 hrs 29 mins |
- Authors
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Robert Galbraith
More about The Cuckoo's Calling
147,870 words
Word Count
for The Cuckoo's Calling
464 pages
Pages
15 hours and 54 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. 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.