TV: Strike hits the target in seedy drama

Strike – The Cuckoo’s Calling (BBC One) could be the start of a beautiful friendship between a television series and viewers

Holliday Grainger and Tom Burke in Strike The Cuckoo’s Calling (BBC One)

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Strike – The Cuckoo’s Calling: BBC One

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Just as I’ve never read any of JRR Tolkien’s Hobbit tales, I haven’t read any of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books. Not only that, I gave up on Robert Galbraith, Rowling’s male literary alter ego, when I set out to read The Cuckoo’s Calling, the first ...