

He has just split from his long term partner and fiancée, Charlotte Campbell, who immediately marries another man.

Although Strike only hires her for one week, she turns out to be much more competent (and useful) than he first expects, and they end up extending her stay. Ellacott has just become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Matthew, with their wedding set to happen later that year. 1984), who has been sent to act as his temporary secretary despite the fact he can barely afford her. Bristow wants Strike to investigate his sister's supposed suicide. The first novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, begins with Strike being hired by John Bristow, the brother of adopted supermodel Lula Landry, who had fallen from her balcony three months previously. He had previously studied at Oxford, but left in his second year to join the Army following the death of his mother. Strike lost the lower half of his right leg in an attack in Afghanistan. 1974)-private detective, ex– Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch investigator and the illegitimate son of famous rock star Jonny Rokeby (the result of an affair with a notorious groupie, Leda Strike)-is broke, and his birth father's business agent is calling in the loan that he gave to Strike to open his agency. Rowling has confirmed that a seventh novel, titled The Running Grave will be published in 2023.

A fifth series, an adaptation of Troubled Blood, aired as four episodes in December 2022. A fourth series, an adaptation of Lethal White, aired as four episodes in August and September 2020. Career of Evil aired as two episodes in February and March 2018. The first two novels were adapted for BBC One and aired as five episodes in August and September 2017. On 12 January 2023, Rowling announced the title of the seventh book as The Running Grave. The sixth novel, titled The Ink Black Heart, was released on 30 August 2022 by Mulholland Books. Rowling stated after the third book that she has plans for at least another ten.
Cormoran strike series#
Six novels in the series have so far been published. The story chronicles the cases of the fictional British private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Sphere Books ( Little, Brown and Company)Ĭormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. Rowling (under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith)
