J.K. Rowling’s Secret Novel, ‘The Cuckoo’s Calling,’ is Revealed

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J.K. Rowling has written a crime novel under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

It was Britain’s Sunday Times that first broke the story over the weekend.

Rowling’s book, “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” is about a war veteran who becomes a private investigator.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Jonathan Freedland, Guardian columnist, who writes thrillers under the name ‘Sam Bourne.’

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