

Strike and Robin are now pretty famous after their successes in previous cases from The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm. I talked with Rowling about the third book in the Galbraith mystery series - it's called Career of Evil - and it brings back private detective Cormoran Strike and his secretary and partner, Robin Ellacott. Rowling, who's famous for her earlier work about a wizard. The first book The Cuckoo's Calling was a well-received murder mystery that received even more attention when an anonymous tip outed the author as J.K. That's because Galbraith isn't your ordinary novelist. The third volume of the Cormoran Strike series by mystery writer Robert Galbraith is an Event with a capital E. ‘Unputdownable.The arrival of a new mystery in a beloved series is always a much anticipated occasion - what's been happening with our favorite private eye? Has an admired police captain been promoted? Has a young lady hacker survived the vicissitudes of the last volume? ‘The work of a master storyteller’ DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘One of the most unique and compelling detectives I’ve come across in years‘ MARK BILLINGHAM *** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! *** You will not be able to put this book down. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them…Ī fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.

With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed.


When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.
