JK Rowling writes as Robert Galbraith, and I have seen some of the Strike books on the TV, but never read one. This is incredibly long, over 900 pages, and very good.
An investigation into a 40-year-old cold case by Strike and his now business partner Robin Ellacott. A doctor in Clerkenwell has been murdered apparently by a serial killer called Creed GP but the daughter asks Strike to reinvestigate.
There is a huge cast of characters, not all still alive, who worked in or were patients of the Clerkenwell GP practice at the time. Strike and Robin talk to all of them, interrupted by the death of Strike’s aunt in Cornwall, interference by his estranged father, and Robin’s end of marriage issues.
The romance between Strike and Robin, which neither dare to express/confront, is an underlying and romantic theme. The book ends with Strike, somewhat miraculously, identifying and confronting the murderer.
Very good and worth a re-read, although there are others in the series.
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