Heh.
Heh heh.
Troubled Blood, the new book from Robert Galbraith aka J K Rowling, has shifted more copies in a day than Lethal White sold in its first week, according to publisher Little, Brown.
Oops.
Heh.
Heh heh.
Troubled Blood, the new book from Robert Galbraith aka J K Rowling, has shifted more copies in a day than Lethal White sold in its first week, according to publisher Little, Brown.
Oops.
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5 responses to “Shifted more copies”
I’ve ordered a copy, and I hardly ever buy new books (I go to the library–which is now closed, of course–or buy used).
I bought it partly to support JKR, and partly because it sounds interesting. I like true crime, and I understand JKR grounds her detective fiction in knowledge of the sordid realities.
Also Nick Cohen says it’s “Dickensian in scope.” So that’s me sold.
Per Amazon, the Kindle version is
And the print version:
Streisand effect anyone?
I do get the sense that those who fulminate about transphobia aren’t great readers of crime genre books.
I wouldn’t ordinarily be interested in reading it, as I didn’t like the part of one Harry Potter book I read, and try not to ‘waste my time’ with crime novels (particularly 900 page ones)–but I may read this one, as I’ve heard it’s both good and explicitly feminist. (It looks like our local library is ordering a zillion copies.)