The Ink Black Heart: The Number One international bestseller (Strike 6)

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K. Rowling) is back with the sixth instalment in the highly acclaimed and international bestselling Strike series. 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. We hope to get a cover and a synopsis soon, so the waiting until August becomes a bit more interesting! 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 .

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Charlotte Campbell Ross – Strike's neurotic and narcissistic ex-fiancee, a beautiful socialite and supermodel. An excellent way to demonstrate to passersby that you are an individual of unusually well-cultivated taste. Although he was stabbed in the neck by Anomie whilst attempting to protect Edie in Highgate Cemetery, leaving him paralysed, he lives and does not receive the same online abuse as Edie.Throughout the book, Strike suffers extreme pain in his stump due to weight-gain as a result of his unhealthy lifestyle, forcing him to diet. The plot, in which a woman is killed after being accused of various prejudices, particularly transphobia, [13] drew comparisons to Rowling's real-life previous controversial comments surrounding transgender people, leading to allegations of self-insertion. Or perhaps they will just print whatever you submit, knowing that the purpose of a for-profit publishing company is to sell as many books as possible, not to sell the best books possible.

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JK Rowling says new novel 'genuinely wasn't' inspired by backlash to her comments on the trans community". The online abuser who ultimately turns out to have killed Edie is (spoiler) an incel, whose motive is that he despises women. She is treated poorly by both parents and is instrumental in helping Strike and Robin solve the case. They also investigate Drek's Game, where Anomie openly confesses to the murder, something treated as a joke by the other moderators, including its co-creator Morehouse. The pain he suffers in his hamstring ultimately forces him to substitute his prosthetic leg with a pair of crutches, hindering his movement in the denouement and forcing Robin to handle things on her own.

an ingenious whodunnit'Sunday Mirror'Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'Independent'Outrageously entertaining'Financial Times 1012 pp. He is a minor celebrity, thanks in part to his rock star father and his solving of high-profile murders. As the Telegraph’s reviewer observed, we “don’t have to ask where Rowling gets her ideas from,” because she has spent years in battles online over her own transphobic comments. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

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Preston 'Pez' Pierce – A womanising digital artist who voiced Magspie in the early episodes of The Ink Black Heart and a resident of North Grove Art Collective.

Vilepechora and LordDrek – Oliver and Charlie Peach, members of the Halvening and moderators who compile a dossier purporting to prove Anomie is Edie prior to her death. Rowling, whom we all know as the creator of Harry Potter, has also made a name for herself in the crime genre for her excellent ongoing detective series - or, rather for her pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Anomie – A co-creator and moderator of Drek's Game, who persecutes Edie after a video is released in which she said she did not like the game.

The Ink Black Heart: The Number One international bestseller

The next thrilling instalment in the highly acclaimed, international bestselling series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by Robert Galbraith, a pseudonym of J. At the end of Troubled Blood, Strike bought Robin a bottle of perfume for her birthday, before the pair headed off for a solo dinner together. After Strike and Robin visit The Ritz for Robin's 30th birthday, Strike attempts to kiss Robin; she evades the kiss.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. Twitter is a place where the general public can speak directly to rich and famous people, and some of the rich and famous people do not handle the results well.