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For Career of Evil, the third crime book written by JK Rowling under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, Cormoran Strike returns and this time it’s personal. When someone sends a severed human leg to his partner, Robin Ellacott, along with a note that links the crime to Strike’s semi-famous mother, several names from his past jump out. With the police focusing on the only one he doesn’t think is guilty, Strike and Robin undertake their own investigations into the remaining suspects. Meanwhile Robin’s wedding looms, and questions arise over exactly what Strike and Robin’s partnership entails.
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Once again published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm is JK Rowling’s second crime novel featuring the private detective Cormoran Strike, and picks up several months after the events of The Cuckoo’s Calling. After an unwanted moment in the spotlight for his work on the Lula Landry case, Strike finds things getting back to normal when he takes on a case from Leonora Quine, whose husband Owen, an author of dubious taste and talent, has gone missing. As he begins his investigation it quickly becomes clear that there is more to Owen’s story than a man hiding away from his wife, with the inflammatory manuscript for his latest book having been circulated amongst his publishers and peers just before his disappearance.

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What do you do if you’re one of the most famous authors on the planet, but want to try something different, and for people to judge your writing purely on its merits? You write under a pseudonym, that’s what – and that’s exactly what JK Rowling did when she quietly released her first crime novel under the name of Robert Galbraith. It didn’t take long for the secret to be revealed, at which point sales went through the roof as expected, but the question remains – can Rowling come out from under Harry Potter’s shadow and cut it in the crime genre? The answer is that yes, she certainly can. Keep reading…