In this series, of course, the central question since book one has not been who most recently dunit, but whether Cormoran Strike and his pretty personal assistant (now copartner in the firm) Robin Ellacott are going to do it.īut wait! That's not really the big central question hanging over this series, is it? No, it's whether J.K. I expressed misgivings in my last few reviews at the trend it's taking, common to detective series, in which the cast of characters and their interpersonal dramas gets dragged out too long. This is the sixth book in the Cormoran Strike series. Rowling, writing as Robert Galbraith, continues to indulge in the luxury of being an author who probably doesn't get told to cut much in fact, the first four chapters of this book are about subplots and secondary investigations that have nothing to do with the main plot, which does not arrive until chapter five. Yes, you've heard correctly: The Ink Black Heart is a mystery novel that's over a thousand pages long. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits-and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways. Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this-and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation.
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