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. The co-creator 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.
The Ink Black Heart is 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.K. Rowling. This is the sixth book in the series, and coming in at a whopping 999 pages, it’s a brick – I don’t think Galbraith knows how to write a short book! If you’re anything like me though, you’ll tear through this in record time.
The novel opens with Strike and Robin out celebrating Robin’s thirtieth birthday. For six books, Galbraith has built up the chemistry between these two characters, resulting in a slow burn, simmering tension that has enticed and frustrated readers in equal measure. Will they ever get together? It sure looks like it in this opening section, but just when we think the moment has finally arrived, Galbraith leaves us hanging and it’s back to business as usual. Frustrating? You betcha. But it’s this restraint that keeps readers coming back for more.
In a storyline that bears a striking resemblance to the very public trolling Rowling has received in recent years, a female Youtube creator is found dead after being violently trolled by superfans. Strike and Robin are on the case to catch the killer. What follows is a sprawling, fiendishly clever mystery that rips along at breakneck speed.
The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force, and perhaps Galbraith’s best Strike and Robin novel yet. This is crime fiction at its very best.
Horrible book!
DON’T BUY
DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME.
UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.
UGH
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Absolutely loved it, I have read the whole series and couldn’t wait for this one. They get better with every chapter. BRILLIANT.
Absolutely brilliant
I only discovered the series a year ago
Read the first 5 books in a record time
Bought the sixth one the day it came out
J.K. Rowling is an amazing writer
Utterly disappointed..
A shallow predictable and unimaginative novel.
Absolute grind .
Best left to the sycophants !
How did Josh have his phone in the hospital?
I was disappointed the previous books in the series were so good I had high expectations. Unfortunately this was my least favourite.
This was a profound disappointment. I thought that the Strike/Ellacot combo was nuanced and brilliantly original.
In this project, they were drowned in tripe about tweets. It’s a bit like reading about your neighbour’s when you don’t know the neighbour and couldn’t care less about their dream.