The Running Grave: Cormoran Strike Book 7

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October 20, 2015 saw the release of ‘Career of Evil’, the third novel in the Cormoran Strike series. Published by Mulholland Books, it was met with great enthusiasm from readers and was even nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery/Thriller. I guess we can stop asking where the office will move because it does not appear to be moving. According to Google Earth, the agency's building is still intact even though the 12 Bar is gone. It's frustrating to be an ocean away and unable to find definitive proof of what demolition and new construction has occurred or is still planned. Anyone know what's going on? Robin Ellacott, a private detective, was approached by Edie Ledwell, who wanted help to discover the identity of an online figure called Anomie. Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike decided to investigate, but soon Edie was found murdered in Highgate Cemetery. Strike and Robin then devoted themselves to uncovering the truth behind Anomie, navigating a complex web of online aliases and business interests. Ultimately, the case put their own lives in danger. It’s not yet clear when the book will be published but it’s expected to be on late 2023 (or early 2024). We can’t wait to see what J.K. Rowling has in store for us in this new installment of the Cormoran Strike series. It is a shame that Rowling is not more vigorously edited, with the result that books with so much to enjoy in them end up outstaying their welcome. It is difficult to tire of Strike and Robin, but tire I did by the end of the book, weighed down by the off-putting sense that plenty of other crime writers offer as much depth and incident as Rowling, in novels half the length.

New Robert Galbraith book, The Running Grave - J.K. Rowling

Whatever the true meaning behind the title and clue may be, one thing is certain – fans of the Cormoran Strike series are eagerly anticipating the release of “ The Running Grave” and the new case that it will bring for the private detective to solve. I think all of Rowling’s comments about the length of the Strike series have to be filed away until there is any solid evidence they contain any truth of sufficient substance to comment on.

The series as structured thus far, as prevailing opinion here holds though Prof Freeman’s pentagram hypothesis demands serious consideration, is a seven book ring or asterisk. The public was told at one point that it was a seven book series.

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Cormoran Strike was approached by Billy, a young man with a troubled past. He claimed to have seen a crime as a child, and Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott decided to investigate. As they searched through bustling London and a sinister manor house, Strike’s newfound fame caused complications in his professional and personal life with Robin. In the end, the case’s resolution provided them with a greater understanding of the truth. Rowling-Galbraith decided not to hand over adaptation rights to her Cormoran Strike stories to someone else’s teevee studio or to one of the Hollywood corporations. I think she did this because her experience in her “collaborations” with Warner Brothers have been for the most part disappointing, not to say “humiliating” for her; see Kloves’ comments about their having to “fit the lady to the dress” in making her Fantastic Beasts screenplay into a film. Rowling does not count her screenplays among the books she wrote and has said she does not consider the Potter films to be creative projects for which she can claim any kind of credit (an opinion she shares when told by a fan that they love the movies). Seventh Strike novel to publish this September, in the tenth anniversary year of the bestselling series by Robert Galbraith On June 19, 2014, ‘The Silkworm’ was published. The second book in the ‘Cormoran Strike’ series, it was again written by J.K. Rowling as Robert Galbraith. It was nominated for the Specsavers National Book Awards Mystery/Thriller Award that year. Will Robin date Murphy or anyone else? Will Murphy being a recovering alcoholic open up the world of addiction and rehab for JKR to pursue?Will we learn more about recurring characters who are barely mentioned in IBH (if at all), such as Shanker, Vanessa, Uncle Ted, Lucy, Polworth and Robin's brothers? Instead, she says it “stops at ten”. And I have to wonder if that was her original goal, and the whole recent fiasco has brought everything to an unnecessary, and unwanted halt? Let’s put it this way. It seems doubtful that Rowling ever intended for her series to have a Reichenbach Falls moment. Instead, it’s more that reality might have forced one on her, in the most ironic twist in the history of the Noir genre. Rather than wanting to cancel her detective, as Doyle did, she’s had to usher him into an unwanted, early retirement. Will any characters from IBH recur in Book 7 or beyond? (Flavia and Zoe feel like unfinished stories to me. And I'd like to know if Josh's condition improves.) Without Louise Freeman’s brilliant literary detective work to reveal the center stage of her planning, the 5-6 Flip idea, the Strike EP possibility really wouldn’t make sense. With it, all the remnant parallels and alchemical coloring pieces fit into a relatively sloppy progression. Not to mention that Rowling’s otherwise risible public pronouncements that it is not a 7 book series now make sense.