I was a little late to this book and had to suffer friends telling me how good it was without being able to get my own copy. 

I've read all the other six books and have devoured the tv adaptations too, and am a huge fan of both the incredible storytelling by 'Robert Galbraith' and also the casting and screenwriters for the tv series.

So when my copy of this book finally reached me, I put everything else aside to read it and though it's nearly 1000 pages, I zoomed through it in a weekend. 

Strike has been approached by a man whose son has joined a religious community in Norfolk. It's part of an international network calling itself the Universal Humanitarian Church which has sinister associations. People become alienated from their families, there are mysterious deaths and anyone who seeks to expose the practices is silenced in some way. 

Strike's business partner Robin Ellacott offers to go undercover, joining the community to see what evidence she can uncover and to reach Will, the young man the agency has been instructed to find and bring home. She is wary of the tactics she'll experience in becoming a member of this community with the sleep and food deprivation and manipulation. But there's much more she can't prepare for, or guard herself against.

This is another brilliantly told instalment in the Cormoran Strike series.