A year on from Lethal White, both are juggling work with complicated personal lives.
Troubled Blood will, I suspect, divide readers in much the same way.įor those Strike aficionados long captivated by the will-they-won’t-they relationship between the detective and his agency partner, Robin Ellacott, there is much to be savoured. The fifth Harry Potter was a similar whopper, dividing the legions of fans ecstatic to be gifted so much Hogwarts from its critics, who wearied of the boy wizard’s adolescent angst and longed for something to actually happen. Galbraith, otherwise known as JK Rowling, has form. Clocking in at a cool 927 pages, the fifth Cormoran Strike novel knocks Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light off the top spot for the biggest big book of 2020. R obert Galbraith’s Troubled Blood is not for the faint of wrist. 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 more tricky than that. 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.Īnd 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. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. 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.
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