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Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling under the pen name Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the cases of the fictional British private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott.
Troubled Blood begins in August 2013 and ends on Robin's 30th birthday on 9 October 2014. While visiting his terminally ill aunt Joan in Cornwall, Strike is approached by a woman who wants to hire Strike's firm to investigate the disappearance of her mother, Margot Bamborough, a general practitioner in Clerkenwell, London, almost 40 years previously, on 11 October 1974.
Later, Robin is invited by the Metropolitan Police for a voluntary interview, where she learns that she has been accused of child sexual abuse by the cult. Strike and Robin interview former UHC members including Carrie Curtis Woods, as Cherie Gittins is now known, who insists Daiyu Wace drowned when she took her to the beach.
Robin Ellacott – Strike's former assistant, now business partner, trained in criminal investigation. She is a survivor of a rape and attempted murder and repeatedly suffers unwanted male attention, causing her to suffer occasional paranoia .
The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction [1] novel written by J. K. Rowling, and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. [2] It is the first novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was followed by The Silkworm in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018, Troubled Blood in 2020 and The Ink Black Heart in 2022.
Cormoran Strike – a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and an ex-SIB investigator who was honourably discharged from the military after losing half of his right leg in a bomb attack. Robin Ellacott – Strike's assistant (originally his secretary) who has just completed a course in criminal investigation, paid for by Strike.
Robin Ellacott – Strike's former secretary, who completed a course in criminal investigation, paid for by Strike, and became his business partner while at her wedding. She is a survivor of a rape and attempted murder and is extremely sensitive regarding sex crimes.
Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress.Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in the Strike series, DI/DCI Rachel Carey in the Peacock/BBC One crime drama The Capture, and ...