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About Robert Galbraith
Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series is classic contemporary crime fiction from a master story-teller, rich in plot, characterisation and detail. Galbraith’s debut into crime fiction garnered acclaim amongst critics and crime fans alike. The first three novels The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015) all topped the national and international bestseller lists and have been adapted for television, produced by Brontë Film and Television. The fourth in the series, Lethal White (2018), is out now.
Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults. After Harry Potter, the author chose crime fiction for her next books, a genre she has always loved as a reader. She wanted to write a contemporary whodunit, with a credible back story.
J.K. Rowling’s original intention for writing as Robert Galbraith was for the books to be judged on their own merit, and to establish Galbraith as a well-regarded name in crime in its own right.
Now Robert Galbraith’s true identity is widely known, J.K. Rowling continues to write the crime series under the Galbraith pseudonym to keep the distinction from her other writing and so people will know what to expect from a Cormoran Strike novel.
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When frantic, disheveled 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. The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate 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.
Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. 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 . . .
A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
*Some of the more complex layouts in the book are rendered as images in the ebook version so that you can enlarge on your preferred reading device*
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
As Strike and Robin investigate Margot’s disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days -- as he has done before -- and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, he discovers that Quine's disappearance is no coincidence. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published, it would ruin lives -- meaning that almost everyone in his life would have motives to silence him. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, Strike must race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . . A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in J. K. Rowling's highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.
When a troubled young man named Billy asks Cormoran Strike to help him investigate a crime he witnessed as a child, the private eye is left deeply troubled. 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. The most epic Robert Galbraith novel yet, Lethal White is "addictive, murderous fun" for British mystery lovers and crime fiction fans alike (Vox).
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, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking 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.
Fast-paced and sharply drawn, this dazzling detective novel inspired Strike, the BBC crime drama series that has captivated millions of viewers worldwide.}]
This omnibus set includes the novels The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, and Lethal White. Each of these novels is compulsively readable, with twists at every turn. You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike.
"Rowling’s wizardry as a writer is on abundant display...This is a crime series deeply rooted in the real world, where brutality and ugliness are leavened by the oh-so-human flaws and virtues of Galbraith’s irresistible hero and heroine." --USA Today
Strike n’a encore jamais travaillé sur une affaire classée, et en l’occurrence, 40 ans se sont écoulés depuis les faits. Intrigué, il accepte, malgré le peu de chances de résoudre l’affaire et la longue liste des cas sur lesquels lui et son associée Robin Ellacott travaillent déjà. Cette dernière est embourbée dans un divorce déjà compliqué, ses sentiments pour Strike n’arrangeant rien.
Petit à petit, l’enquête apparaît comme extraordinairement complexe. Sur leur chemin, Robin et Strike rencontrent des témoins peu fiables, s’interrogent sur des jeux de tarots, tout en poursuivant des pistes qui semblent mener vers un serial killer psychopathe. Ils apprendront bientôt, à leurs dépens, que même des affaires classées peuvent se révéler dangereuses…
Ce cinquième volume de la série des Cormoran Strike, épique et labyrinthique à souhait, nous offre une lecture haletante. Incontestablement le meilleur roman de Robert Galbraith à ce jour.
Traduit de l'anglais par Florianne Vidal
Un thriller épico, ameno y apasionante que ha vendido 5 millones de ejemplares en un año en Reino Unido.
La serie protagonizada por Cormoran Strike, convertida en una gran producción de la HBO.
El detective privado Cormoran Strike, que se halla en Cornwall visitando a su familia, es abordado en plena calle por una mujer que le pide ayuda para encontrar a su madre, Margot Bamborough, desaparecida en 1974 en extrañas circunstancias.
A pesar de que nunca se ha enfrentado a un caso ocurrido tantos años atrás y de ser consciente de las escasas posibilidades de éxito, Cormoran Strike y su compañera en la agencia, Robin Ellacott, que sigue atrapada entre un divorcio tormentoso y sus sentimientos hacia Cormoran, acaban aceptando el caso.
A medida que se van sumergiendo en la investigación, los dos detectives se topan con una historia terriblemente compleja poblada de cartas de tarot, un asesino en serie psicópata y testigos que son poco de fiar. Porque incluso un hecho ocurrido hace décadas puede ser mortal.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Una muestra trepidante del género negro.»
Sunday Times
«Una narración magistral.»
The Daily Telegraph
«Un alarde creativo de primer orden.»
The Guardian
«Una serie policíaca genial. [...] Espléndida.»
Sunday Mirror
«Comienzas a leer atrapado por los giros inesperados de la trama y acabas fascinado por la relación principal perfectamente trazada.»
The Independent
«Increíblemente entretenida.»
Financial Times
Une nuit d’hiver, dans un quartier chic de Londres, le célèbre mannequin Lula Landry est trouvée morte, défenestrée. Suicide. Affaire classée. Jusqu’au jour où l’avocat John Briscow, frère de la victime, frappe à la porte du détective privé Cormoran Strike.
Strike est au bout du rouleau : ex-lieutenant dans l’armée, il a perdu une jambe en Afghanistan, sa carrière de détective est au point mort et sa vie privée un naufrage. Aidé par une jeune recrue intérimaire virtuose de l’Internet, Strike est chargé d'enquêter sur la mort de Lula.
De boîtes de nuit branchées en hôtels pour rock-stars assaillies par les paparazzi, en passant par un centre de désintoxication et le manoir où se meurt la mère adoptive de Lula, Strike va passer de l’autre côté du miroir glamour de la mode, dont les reflets chatoyants dissimulent un gouffre de secrets, de trahisons, de manœuvres inspirées par la vengeance.
Avec son intrigue haletante et sa galerie de personnages plus vrais que nature, L’Appel du Coucou, premier volet des aventures du détective Strike, s'inscrit dans la tradition du grand roman policier classique illustrée par Ruth Rendell et P. D. James. Un coup de maître.
« Galbraith accomplit un prodige ! » — Publishers Weekly
« Eblouissant. » — The Times
Quand l’écrivain Owen Quine disparaît dans la nature, sa femme décide de faire appel au détective privé Cormoran Strike. Au début, pensant qu’il est simplement parti s’isoler quelques jours – comme cela lui est déjà arrivé par le passé –, elle ne demande à Strike qu’une seule chose : qu’il le retrouve et le lui ramène.
Mais, sitôt lancée l’enquête, Strike comprend que la disparition de Quine est bien plus inquiétante que ne le suppose sa femme. Le romancier vient en effet d’achever un manuscrit dans lequel il dresse le portrait au vitriol de presque toutes ses connaissances. Si ce texte venait à être publié, il ruinerait des vies entières. Nombreux sont ceux qui préféreraient voir Quine réduit au silence.
Lorsque ce dernier est retrouvé assassiné dans de mystérieuses circonstances, la course contre la montre est lancée. Pour mettre la main sur le meurtrier – un tueur impitoyable, tel qu’il n’en a encore jamais rencontré dans sa carrière –, Strike va devoir d’abord percer à jour ses motivations profondes.
Roman policier haletant, rythmé par une véritable cascade de coups de théâtre, Le Ver à soie est le deuxième opus des enquêtes de Cormoran Strike et de sa jeune et intrépide assistante, Robin Ellacott.
Afin de percer le mystère de l’histoire racontée par Billy, Strike et Robin Ellacott – autrefois son assistante et désormais sa partenaire à l’agence – s’engagent sur un chemin sinueux à travers les bas-fonds de Londres jusqu’à un sanctuaire secret au cœur du Parlement, puis dans un magnifique mais sinistre manoir de la campagne anglaise.
Alors que l’enquête s’avère labyrinthique, la vie de Strike est également loin d’être rectiligne : sa nouvelle notoriété en tant que détective l’empêche désormais d’opérer en sous-main, comme à son habitude. De plus, sa relation avec son ancienne assistante devient plus périlleuse que jamais – Robin lui est certes indispensable professionnellement, mais leur relation personnelle se complique de jour en jour…
Blanc mortel nous propose à la fois un mystère captivant et un nouvel épisode haletant de l’histoire de Cormoran Strike et Robin Ellacott. Le livre le plus romanesque de Robert Galbraith.
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