Cormoran Strike Series

The Cormoran Strike series is a spellbinding series of crime fiction novels by J.K. Rowling written under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. The story revolves around Cormoran Strike, a war veteran and current private detective. Cormoran is assisted by his partner, Robin Ellacott, and together they solve cases of murder and intrigue.

J.K. Rowling decided to pen The Cuckoo's Calling under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, as a means to fly under the radar of the public eye and write as freely as she possibly could. The origins of the name Robert Galbraith come from her admiration for Robert F. Kennedy and her childhood desires to be named Ella Galbraith. Rowling has stated publicly that:

J.K. Rowling also said that she was "yearning to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback. It was a fantastic experience and I only wish it could have gone on a little longer." It has come in to question why J.K. Rowling decided to write under a male pseudonym instead of female. Rowling has defended this decision by stating that she wanted to get as far away from her true persona as possible so people would not decipher who the true author is. J.K. Rowling provides a humorous description of what happened when she revealed herself as the author of The Cuckoo's Calling to her editor:

I am proud to say, though, that when I 'unmasked' myself to my editor David Shelley who had read and enjoyed The Cuckoo's Calling without realizing I wrote it, one of the first things he said was 'I never would have thought a woman wrote that.' Apparently I successfully channeled my inner bloke!

J.K. Rowling was discovered to be Robert Galbraith after a friend of her lawyer leaked the information to the public. Rowling has sought legal action against the lawyer who leaked the information, and the lawyer has since been fined with breaching confidentiality agreements.

On December 10, 2014, J.K. Rowling announced on Twitter that the Cormoran Strike series would be adapted as a TV drama for BBC One. The Cuckoo's Calling premiered on British television August 27, 2017, with three episodes, starring Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike and Holliday Grainger as Robin Ellacott. These television adaptations are produced by Brontë Film and Television, the independent production company run by Neil Blair and J.K. Rowling. The Silkworm was released September 10, 2017, with two episodes, and Career of Evil followed on February 25, 2018, with two episodes. The series was not released in the United States until June 2018. Lethal White premiered in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2020, and later aired in the United States on January 20, 2021.

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On January 25, 2020, J.K. Rowling tweeted that she had completed writing the fifth book in her Cormoran Strike series. On February 19, 2020, it was announced that the title of the fifth book in the Cormoran Strike series is Troubled Blood. Troubled Blood was published on September 15, 2020.ISBN: 978-0316498937.

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.

Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott – once his assistant, now a partner in the agency – set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.

And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: His newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been – Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that.

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Published September 18, 2018

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ISBN (hardcover): 978-0316422734

ISBN (paperback): 978-0316422772

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

Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. 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.

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. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them...

Career of Evil is the third in the highly acclaimed series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, it is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.

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Published October 22, 2015

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ISBN (hardcover): 978-0316349932ISBN (paperback): 978-0316349895

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In this thrilling sequel, Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are back again, this time attempting to solve the disappearance of an eccentric author.

After Cormoran Strike's remarkable success in solving the murder of Lula Landry, his detective business is booming like never before - he and Robin are turning away clients away left and right. But another big case doesn't come through his door until Leonora Quine walks in. Her husband, the erratic, semi-famous author Owen Quine, has been missing for ten days.

As Strike begins to investigate, he soon finds clues that Quine's disappearance may be linked to his latest manuscript, titled "Bombyx Mori", a bizarre and heinous story in which Quine seems to insult everyone from his wife to his editor. When Quine is found gruesomely murdered in a method straight from the pages of his novel, Strike must delve into the underbelly of literary London to get to the bottom of the case.

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Published June 19, 2014

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ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-316-20687-7

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A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.

This character guide is taken from Wikipedia.

Published April 4, 2013

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ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-316-20684-6

ISBN (paperback): 978-0-316-20685-3

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