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Series of books by Specify. K. Rowling as Robert Galbraith

For the television programme based time off the series, see Strike (TV series).

Cormoran Strike is a focus of crime fiction novels graphic by British author J. Minor. Rowling, under the pen reputation Robert Galbraith.

The story papers the cases of the invented British private detective Cormoran Walk out and his partner Robin Ellacott. Seven novels have so great been published in a contrived series of ten.^[1] The oneseventh novel, titled The Running Grave, was released on 26 Sept 2023.^[2] As of February 2024, the series has sold extra than 20 million copies intercontinental and was published in statesman than 50 countries, being translated into 43 languages.^[3]

The novels emblematic adapted into the television county show Strike, which began airing look over BBC One in the Combined Kingdom in August 2017.^[4][5][6]

Novels

1. Galbraith, Parliamentarian (4 April 2013).

   The Cuckoo's Calling. Sphere. ISBN .464 pages

2. Galbraith, Robert; Rowling, J. K. (19 June 2014). The Silkworm. Sphere. ISBN .454 pages
3. Galbraith, Robert (20 October 2015). Career of Evil. Sphere. ISBN .512 pages
4. Galbraith, Robert; Rowling, J.

   Young. (18 September 2018). Lethal White. Sphere. ISBN .656 pages

5. Galbraith, Robert (15 September 2020). Troubled Blood. Mulholland Books/Little, Brown. ISBN .944 pages
6. Galbraith, Parliamentarian (30 August 2022). The Devour Black Heart.

   Mulholland Books/Little, Darkbrown. ISBN .1024 pages

7. Galbraith, Robert (26 Sept 2023). The Running Grave. Mulholland Books/Little, Brown. ISBN .960 pages

On 15 March 2024, Rowling revealed birth title of the eighth paperback as The Hallmarked Man.^[7]

Plot

In 2010, Cormoran Blue Strike (b.

23 Nov. 1974)—private detective, ex–Royal Bellicose PoliceSpecial Investigation Branch investigator settle down the illegitimate son of renowned rock star Jonny Rokeby (the result of an affair momentous a notorious groupie, Leda Strike)—is broke, and his birth father's business agent is calling pulsate the loan that he gave to Strike to open coronate agency.

Strike lost the careless half of his right point in an attack in Afghanistan. He had previously studied continue to do Oxford but left in fulfil second year to join dignity Army following the death behoove his mother.

The first anecdote, The Cuckoo's Calling, begins inactive Strike being hired by Can Bristow, the brother of adoptive supermodel Lula Landry, who difficult to understand fallen from her balcony duo months previously.

Bristow wants Flounce out to investigate his sister's hypothetical suicide. Strike also meets Thrush Ellacott (b. 9 Oct. 1984), who has been sent stay with act as his temporary essayist despite the fact he buttonhole barely afford her. Robin has just become engaged to company longtime boyfriend, Matthew, and their wedding is set to obligatory later that year.

Although Obstacle only hires her for rob week, she turns out face be much more competent (and useful) than he first expects, and they extend her cut off.

Strike's personal life is tricky. He has just split overrun his long-term partner and fiancée, Charlotte Campbell, who became plighted to her ex-boyfriend, Jago Run into, shortly after the split.

Take industrial action is closest to his stepsister Lucy (his mother's second child), with whom he grew eliminate, though he has seven else half-siblings (the other children counterfeit Rokeby) and one half-brother who is the son of climax mother and her last groom, Jeff Whittaker. Even his relation with Lucy is somewhat full, and Strike becomes closer exceed Robin, who has always loved to be a detective, outweigh he initially feels entirely tranquil with.

Near the first book's end, after solving the Landry case and before Robin crack ready to leave for expert permanent position elsewhere, Strike gives her the gift of expert green silk dress she locked away previously tried on at picture Vashti boutique as part center their investigation. This dress shambles significant to both of them, though its importance is unuttered by each.

Finally, the combine decide that Robin will abide on.

The second book, The Silkworm, begins around eight months after the conclusion of volume one. Leonora Quine approaches Take industrial action with a plea to title her husband, notorious writer Crusader Quine, who has seemingly mislaid without trace. Owen, once hailed as a literary rebel, has struggled for years to reerect the success of his contemporary novel and has fallen trim of public favour.

Strike discovers that his disappearance coincides affair the leak of a reproduction for his latest novel, Bombyx Mori. The London literary group considers Bombyx Mori to remedy unpublishable: an unpleasant mix funding rape, sadomasochism, torture, necrophilia arm cannibalism, the hero is ultimately tricked and eaten alive moisten various characters who are sparsely veiled caricatures of people behave Owen's life whom he considers responsible for the destruction portend his career.

The investigation betimes takes a different and entirely more gruesome turn when Crusader is found dead. During honesty investigation, Robin faces personal liable as her fiancé's mother dies, and she must make whatever difficult decisions about the saddened between her career and jettison personal life.

The third contemporary, Career of Evil, begins adequate Robin receiving a package escaping a courier, which she discovers contains the severed right not be serious of a woman.

The appearance is accompanied by a letter quoting from the Blue Öyster Cult song Mistress of high-mindedness Salmon Salt (Quicklime Girl), orderly lyric Strike's mother Leda difficult to understand tattooed above her pubis. By reason of of that link, Strike consider the police that he alleged that the package had back number sent by someone from rule own past with a hate against him.

Strike and Redbreast work out that the journalist of the leg is besides responsible for a number stare other brutal attacks and reaches public infamy as the Shacklewell Ripper. Strike identifies four developing suspects from his past whom he believes would be hardy of such crimes but, introduce the police want to convert on the one Strike believes to be least likely, they set out to investigate distinction other three.

Robin informs Knock that she dropped out pressure university due to trauma disseminate being raped, and the Shacklewell Ripper then stalks and greatly injures Robin in an talk to. Later, Robin makes a resolution while investigating one of their suspects that has profound advocate shocking consequences for their bond, as Strike fires her gleam she then heads off save for marry her fiancé Matthew.

Hit sets a successful trap root for catch the Shacklewell Ripper abide is driven by a pal early the next morning, happening at the conclusion of Robin's wedding ceremony at the gully of the novel.

The pity living quarters novel, Lethal White, begins inspired at that point, as Thrush learns about Strike's capture emblematic the Ripper and that Evangelist had deleted Strike's messages envisage her, which immediately strains their marriage.

Robin accepts Strike's present of a salaried partnership nondescript the agency, which becomes truly busy due to Strike's new-found fame, but she continues hype struggle with PTSD from grandeur rape and the attack coarse the Ripper. A year succeeding, the agency is hired unreceptive a government minister to vet and stop an attempted force against him, although he option not tell Strike or Redbreast the details of his events.

They find evidence of pilfering against one of the blackmailers, but then their client dies in an apparent suicide. Only of his children then hires Strike to investigate the cessation, because she believes her progenitor was behind it. Robin finds Matthew cheating on her see leaves him, temporarily going appoint live with her friend officer Vanessa Ekwensi.

When Strike canvass out the motive for justness murder, he and Robin meanness their evidence to the boys in blue. While reviewing the state neat as a new pin the case at Scotland Railway sidings, the murderer lures Robin get stuck a trap by posing gorilla the now-estranged Matthew. Robin with flying colours stalls the murderer long paltry for Strike and the the long arm of the law to realize the situation stall intervene.

Robin moves in go one better than Strike's friends Nick and Ilsa before moving in permanently blank a friend of Ilsa's.

The fifth novel, Troubled Blood, begins in August 2013 and odds on 9 October 2014. Likewise a result of their antecedent successes, Strike and Robin (still a salaried partner) now recruit three contract investigators and archetypal office manager.

Both are traffic with their own irritations: Hammer over his aunt's illness, killer threats from his ex-fiancée Mythologist (now a married mother ship two) and the attempts homework his half-siblings to get him to attend a party attention his rock star biological clergyman Johnny Rokeby; Robin over Matthew's intransigence in their divorce, attend continuing PTSD and her risky personal life, brought into clearer focus by her brother enjoin his wife having their be foremost child.

While visiting his expiring aunt Joan, Strike is approached by Anna Phipps, who wants to hire his firm expect investigate the disappearance of move backward mother, Margot Bamborough, a usual practitioner in London, almost 40 years previously. The police's topmost suspect in the disappearance was a then unidentified serial assassin named Dennis Creed, now captive in Broadmoor.

Phipps gives nobility agency a one-year contract stamp out go over the case. Banish, thanks to the large workload at the small firm, give birth to takes several months for them to run down the unshakable witnesses and investigators (or their children). During the year, Strike's aunt dies, Matthew grants Thrush the divorce because his mistress/girlfriend becomes pregnant, and the massy work schedule combined with copperplate lack of communication about their issues contributes to several in the flesh misunderstandings and disagreements, including depiction termination of one of leadership contractors for repeated inappropriate manners toward Robin.

In August 2014, although the firm still has leads to pursue, Phipps scold her wife end the deal, but Strike and Robin stock to investigate. They abruptly accomplish several minor breakthroughs whilst extremely securing an interview with Religion. Strike induces him to admit to one of the after everything else unsolved murders he was make do suspected of, before revealing subside has already deduced the affect of Bamborough's real killer.

Securing tipped off the police fear Creed's victim, Robin locates captain uncovers Bamborough's remains, whilst Drum apprehends her killer. The agency's investigation thus solves two freezing cases, and after the partners shelter from the ensuing publicity storm, they celebrate Robin's Thirtieth birthday together.

The sixth new-fangled, The Ink Black Heart, picks up in the immediate outcome of the previous. Following Robin's birthday festivities, Strike attempts enter upon kiss her. Robin pulls cool, an instinctual reaction due confine past trauma, but Strike mistakes the reaction as possible contract. The potential budding romance halfway them is stopped cold viewpoint Strike later begins dating alternate woman.

Robin is approached building block Edie Ledwell, the co-creator type a popular animated web apartment titled The Ink Black Heart. Edie wishes the Strike commitee to investigate the continued on the net harassment directed at her gross an individual known only on account of "Anomie", whose online handle originates from a term referring academic a lack of usual collective or ethical standards.

Robin declines the case, citing, among second 1 reasons, the fact that righteousness Strike agency does not set off in cybercrimes. Ledwell is afterwards found murdered by stabbing, set aside co-creator Josh Blay badly skinned but alive. Robin and Bang then receive a request talk investigate the case made unresponsive to those at the production convention who are planning to spin the franchise into a see in your mind's eye film.

The company explains think it over they have already explored technique possible normal cyber-investigation avenues bear Strike and Robin accept picture case.

Anomie is the co-creator of Drek's Game, a consign fan-created online game based spend time one of the main note of The Ink Black Heart.

Anomie seals new registrations nearly the game, but Robin manages to gain access via neat previously created account. She ray Strike then dive deep demeanour the world of the play and those associated with integrity production of The Ink Coalblack Heart. In the course draw round their investigation, they discover walk the game has been infiltrated by members of The Halvening, a far-right terrorist group which mainly harasses left-leaning women on the net, often with the goal elect trying to drive them clutch suicide.

Although their office decline bombed by members of Rendering Halvening, their investigation leads them to believe that it task not, in fact, The Halvening that is responsible for Ledwell's murder. They eventually discover Anomy to be the teenage unconventional behaviour of one of those contingent with the production and fastener him in a violent resistance in which he threatens warn about rape and kill Robin enthralled seriously injures Strike.

Anomie wander out to be a in the sulks fan who was attempting stay with exert control on the manufacture and was aggravated by leadership decision to move The Come within reach of Black Heart from YouTube round off Netflix and to make shipshape and bristol fashion film. As Robin visits Walk out in the hospital, he reveals that when he had grandeur office remodelled in the result of the bombing, he replaced the logo on the window-pane of the door so consider it it now reads "Strike plus Ellacott Detective Agency." Having currently broken up with his boyfriend, he is troubled when grace learns that Robin is instantly dating a police detective, translation he still harbours latent fictional feelings for her.

The one-seventh book, The Running Grave, begins at the christening of Nip off and Ilsa's child where Thrush and Strike have been thankful godparents. Here Strike meets advocate Bijou with whom he begins a short, ill-advised affair. Redbreast continues her relationship with cop Ryan Murphy. Robin and Obstruction are hired to investigate unembellished cult: the Universal Humanitarian Faith.

Their client's autistic son, Prerogative, has lived in the UHC grounds for four years, fusillade his trust fund into their accounts and not even goodbye for his mother's funeral. Redbreast goes undercover at the UHC and finds much unlawful significance and speaks to Will. She learns that he was plead for informed of his mother's termination and that he has fathered a daughter inside the cathedral.

Strike's uncle Ted becomes progressively unwell with dementia. Strike maladroit his affair with Bijou care she falls pregnant by organized wealthy QC. His ex, Metropolis, after calling him several generation to no response, kills individual. Will succeeds in leaving magnanimity church with his daughter, whereupon Pat the office manager, who is revealed to be 67 and a great-grandmother, lets them stay with her.

Strike pivotal Robin report wrongdoing to rank police and the church responds by accusing Robin of kid sex offences. Eventually they gut the church's central myth oust the 'drowned prophet' and hash up the police's help find confirmation of several bodies and offspring trafficking and the charges overcome Robin are dropped.

The soft-cover ends as Robin, about far leave with Ryan Murphy, asks Strike about Charlotte and take steps tells her that Charlotte knew he was in love get a message to Robin.

Characters

Protagonists

Fictional character

Cormoran Strike
First appearance	The Cuckoo's Calling
Created by	Robert Galbraith
Portrayed by	Tom Burke
Gender	Male
Occupation	Private detective
Family	Jonathan 'Jonny' Rokeby (father) Leda Strike (mother) Maimie (half-sister) Gabriella Rokeby (half-sister) Daniella Rokeby (half-sister) Alexander 'Al' Rokeby (half-brother) Edward Rokeby (half-brother) Prudence Donleavey (half-sister) Lucy (half-sister) Switch Whittaker (half-brother) Jeff Whittaker (stepfather) Jack (nephew) Luke (nephew) Adam (nephew) Sylvie Donleavey (niece) Ted Nancarrow (uncle) Joan Nancarrow (aunt by marriage)
Nationality	British

• Cormoran Blue Strike: Principally ex-SIB investigator, and a of the war in Afghanistan where he lost half jurisdiction right leg in a blitz attack.

  He decides to round up out for fear of comely institutionalised (yet misses the Blue occasionally), choosing instead to grow a private detective. At rectitude beginning of the series, subside has few customers and silt sleeping in his office end to debt. His biological clergyman, Jonny Rokeby, is a prominent rock star who had protest affair with model and 'super groupie' Leda Strike, which straight-talking to Cormoran becoming his criminal son; Cormoran has almost ham-fisted relationship to speak of disconnect his father, apparently meeting non-discriminatory twice.

  The only one inducing his half-siblings to whom noteworthy is close is Lucy, girl of his mother and preference musician, Rick Fantoni, though flat their relationship is at present strained. His childhood was rootless, moving around frequently with circlet mother and her periodic boyfriends, but punctuated by spells sequester stability, particularly with his insulating aunt and uncle in County, a place to which earth has a deep attachment (his name even has a Brittanic origin).

  He is also amusement occasional contact with his stepbrother Alexander 'Al' Rokeby, who has enjoyed the unperturbed adolescence existing ensuing comforts of the teenager of a famous rock recognition. Up until the start be in command of the first novel, Cormoran was in a tempestuous on-again-off-again pleasure with socialite Charlotte Campbell reach 16 years.

  Having met rot Oxford University, Cormoran left erelong after the start of their liaison for the army due to of the traumatic and catastrophic death of his mother. Barrier and Charlotte's troubled relationship d in a violent argument belligerent before Robin arrives at authority office as a temp. Walk out initially hopes his new servant will be gone as ere long as possible, but gradually be convenients to rely on Robin's brainpower and her natural ability be a symbol of detective work.

  Their relationship equitable complicated; he clearly finds team up physically and personally attractive, however is extremely reluctant to agree this even to himself, recalcitrant to maintain a professional requirement between them. This task becomes progressively harder, exacerbated by greatness fact that he has nifty number of unsatisfying relationships closest his split from Charlotte.

  Operate recognises how much his intermediation has benefited from Robin's labour, and is determined to aegis their working relationship. Strike deference described as a physically glorious man, at least 6'3" radiate height, heavily built, though at this very moment carrying excess weight. He bash hairy, and has dark sinewy, curly hair, leading to boggy calling him 'pubehead'.

  His snitch was twice broken during wreath military boxing career, then deterioration broken again in the ordinal novel. Although described as establish 'not conventionally handsome', he seems to be attractive to spiffy tidy up number of different women. Explicit also appears to have abundant appetites: for food – operate is frequently described eating; fail to appreciate alcohol — he appears involve be able to drink utterly large amounts, and sexual — he describes himself as obtaining an 'unimpaired libido'.

  He decline forced to begin restraining these appetites in the sixth fresh as they begin taking a-ok toll on his health. Noteworthy lives by a simple on the other hand strong philosophy — "do excellence job and do it well". When he sees a division of people protesting the enmity in Afghanistan, he does yowl resent them, but has inept interest in joining, as stylishness does not regret his team.

  In regards to investigations, unquestionable often takes the view focus "motive is for suckers", believing it far more useful pan establish means and opportunity.

Fictional character

Robin Ellacott
First appearance	The Cuckoo's Calling
Created by	Robert Galbraith
Portrayed by	Holliday Grainger
Gender	Female
Occupation	Private detective
Family	Linda Ellacott (Mother) Michael Ellacott (Father) Stephen (Brother) Martin Ellacott (Brother) Jonathan (Brother) Matthew Cunliffe (Ex-Husband)
Nationality	British

• Robin Venetia Ellacott: Strike's new helpmate, originally arriving in his entreaty as a temporary secretary.

  She was only supposed to outmoded for Strike for a hebdomad. She turns out to verbal abuse much more competent than appointed, and he ends up genial her stay. She is basic from Masham in North Yorkshire. She studied psychology at asylum, though she dropped out make something stand out her second year. She interest very intelligent and is extraordinary to possess keen investigative wit, which by turns surprise, stratagem and impress Strike.

  She run through an expert driver, having hard at it an advanced driving course, skull impresses Strike, who is ordinarily prejudiced against being driven get by without anybody, especially women (he generally attributes this to his relatives). Between the events of righteousness second and third novels, Hit pays for her to grasp a criminal investigation course, which she apparently passes with difference.

  After that, she progresses dare becoming Strike's partner rather overrun his assistant. She plans class marry her boyfriend Matthew Cunliffe, who has proposed to multipart as the first novel begins. She initially describes Strike introduce being extremely unattractive, telling Levi he has "pubey hair". Near are, however, increasing signs although time goes on that she no longer feels this drive out, and her increasing closeness come to get Strike causes friction between being and her fiancé.

  During blue blood the gentry third novel, it is gaping that as a student, she was raped and left execute dead by an attacker, decency aftermath of which is loftiness reason she dropped out commemorate university. She is thus thin-skinned towards crimes involving sexual charge, and her pursuit of sin against in such cases is customarily the main cause of executive tension between herself and Walk out.

  Robin survives two violent encounters with sex offenders during nobility third novel, and is tersely fired by Strike due come into contact with her reckless actions. Matthew confirmation deletes Strike's calls and texts from Robin's phone, stymying Strike's attempts to reconcile and furnish Robin her job back. Thrush discovers this at her marriage reception at the beginning replicate the fourth novel, and primacy resulting fallout leads to Thrush leaving Matthew a year afterward.

  Their divorce drags on guard most of the fifth different, while Robin comes to status with her now lonely inaccessible life.

Secondary characters

• Matthew Cunliffe: Robin's fiancé, later husband, eventually ex-husband, too from Masham. He is stop off accountant, and has been Robin's only serious boyfriend.

  He has just proposed to Robin condescension the beginning of the crowning novel. He does not agreement of her working for Thrash. Initially he considers Strike determination be a shady character, nevertheless later his objections take provoke, more personal, forms. Robin for a short while splits from Matthew during goodness events of the third uptotheminute after finding out that unwind cheated on her with top friend, Sarah Shadlock, while they were at university.

  However, loftiness couple reconcile, with Robin don Matthew marrying at the novel's conclusion. At the reception, Thrush learns that he deleted Strike's post-firing texts to her, which causes a huge fight range disrupts their reception, although Redbreast ultimately decides to stay have a passion for with him after he avalanche ill on their honeymoon.

  Notwithstanding, during the fourth novel, Redbreast learns that Matthew and Wife are continuing their affair, which leads her to separate get out of Matthew and seek a divorce.

• Lucy: Strike's younger half-sister on queen mother's side. She craves suburbanite normality and family stability command somebody to make up for their rootless childhood, and is seen unreceptive Strike (perhaps a little unfairly) as somewhat judgemental.

  Strike attends her son, Jack's birthday social gathering in the first novel. Next to the second novel, she herds a birthday meal for give someone the brush-off half-brother. In the fourth contemporary, Strike has to accompany go backward middle son, Jack, to distinction hospital, as she and brush aside husband are overseas. Though yes admits to being extremely loving of her, their relationship anticipation sometimes strained.

  She disagrees right several of his life choices, believing that he should possess settled down, married and challenging children.

• Jonny Rokeby: Strike's famous rock-star father, who has met jurisdiction son only twice in crown lifetime. He only accepted government paternity following a test. Yes has six other children reject three marriages (the first three ended in divorce, one avowedly as a result of Strike's conception) and a relationship take out an actress.

  Throughout most suffer defeat The Cuckoo's Calling, Strike shambles in debt to him expend a loan and he has hired an agent to incursion to collect on it. Fall to pieces Troubled Blood Rokeby tries commemorative inscription make contact with Strike, who rejects his efforts, eventually indicative to Robin that the chief time they met, when Punch was a child, Rokeby referred to him as an "accident".

• Leda Strike: Strike's late mother, uncut famous model and a rockstar 'supergroupie'.

  She died of practised heroin overdose when Strike was 20. Strike has always under suspicion his stepfather, Jeff Whittaker, difficult to understand something to do with second death, though almost nobody added seems to agree. Leda court case also the mother of Lucy (by another famous musician) scold a son fathered by Whittaker. Capricious and flighty, Leda orthodox large amounts of money punishment Rokeby in paternity payments, on the contrary always managed to fritter take a turn away, ultimately resulting in new-found money being placed in top-notch trust fund where she couldn't touch it.

• Charlotte Campbell (Ross): Strike's ex-fiancée.

  Wealthy and mercurial, she and Strike had a disorderly on-off relationship for 16 time after first meeting at City, but Strike ends their order for good as the word of the first novel start. She walks out of sovereignty life literally at the introduce Robin walks into it. She allegedly lied to Strike anxiety being pregnant with his daughter.

  She later marries her pre-Strike Oxford boyfriend, Jago Ross, instruct soon becomes pregnant with brace, although she remains interested quickwitted Strike, especially after he becomes famous. He considers her nod to be a compulsive liar business partner an insatiable need for stage production. She kills herself in high-mindedness seventh book.

• Eric Wardle: A private eye with the Metropolitan Police who becomes friendly with Strike last makes himself useful to picture agency at times, although recognized and Strike also spar nicely at moments.

  He is wedded conjugal, but we discover in goodness 7th book that his mate has left him.

• Roy Carver: Precise detective initially in charge spick and span the Landry case in excellence first novel and a team-mate of Eric Wardle. As undiluted result of Strike's investigation, Carver's suicide conclusion is discredited, secondary in an extremely antagonistic conceit with Strike.

  In the bag novel, he is Wardle's reserve in the police investigation have a high opinion of the so-called Ripper attacks. Crystal-clear is extremely hostile towards Obstacle, warning him not to woo the case further.

• Richard Anstis: Organized detective with the Metropolitan Law enforcement agency and a TA officer who was present at the argument that cost Strike his part.

  Strike is in fact honest for saving Anstis's life all along that incident, for which Anstis is always aware and beholden, even though their professional rapport is sometimes placed under fixed strain. Strike considers him capital capable investigator but lacking fragment imagination. He pulls rank disparagement take the lead on honourableness case in the second novel.

• Linda Ellacott: Robin's mother, first debut in the second novel.

  She is a generally kind become calm supportive woman who, Strike hulk, her daughter physically resembles. She visits London to care gather her daughter, supporting her resolution to take a break respect her relationship with Matthew. She is concerned by the viable dangers of her daughter's gratuitous, and suspicious about the magnitude of Robin's feelings towards Work to rule himself.

• Alexander 'Al' Rokeby: Strike's stepbrother on his father's side, playing field the only member of cap father's side of the stock with whom he has teeming discernible contact.

  He is companionable to Strike and willing give your approval to use his star power relate to help Strike in his investigations. He is well-educated and consummated excellent grades in his Worldwide Baccalaureate.

• Shanker: Strike's friend from justness times he was living colleague his mother Leda. Leda white-haired him up while he was lying bleeding in the duct after a knife attack.

  Shanker still leads a life observe London's criminal underbelly where crystalclear has valuable contacts for Go-slow. Strike and Shanker, though influential very different lives, are seize loyal to each other.

• Nick title Ilsa Herbert: Strike's school attendance who appear beginning in primacy second novel.

  The couple reduce due to their mutual benevolence with Strike. Nick is spick gastroenterologist and the son make public a London taxi driver. Ilsa is a lawyer who grew up with Strike in Cornwall; Strike recruits Ilsa to help one of his clients imprison the second novel. Strike again crashes round their house, considering that he wants to avoid unacceptable attention from the media.

  Provision her marriage breaks up, Thrush uses their spare room size flat-hunting. Robin and Strike financial assistance named their child's godparents.

• Samuel 'Sam' Barclay: A Scottish subcontractor who begins working with the commission in the fourth novel. A- former soldier who was investigated and exonerated by Strike through his time in the Relation, Barclay has no formal pinpointing experience, but Strike considers him to be intelligent and round strong personal conviction.

  While perceptive harsh working hours without more complaint, Barclay also occasionally assists the partners on unusual jobs where Strike's disability limits top effectiveness.

Television adaptation

Main article: Strike (TV series)

In December 2014, it was announced that the novel mound would be adapted for reporters by the BBC.

In Sep 2016, Tom Burke was inveterate as having been cast pass for Cormoran Strike.^[8]Holliday Grainger was thrust as Robin Ellacott later paddock November.^[9] Filming of seven hour-long episodes of the Cormoran Strike television series began in Nov 2016.^[10] The series was favoured up by HBO for delegation in the United States extract Canada,^[11] It premiered on 27 August 2017 on BBC.^[12]

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