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Cormoran Strike
Series · 13
books · 2013-2025

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쿠쿠스 콜링. 2

2013

조앤 K. 롤링의 저력을 다시 한 번 확인할 수 있는 탐정 스릴러! 의문의 죽음을 맞은 슈퍼모델과 진실을 밝혀내려는 남자의 이야기를 담은 소설 『쿠쿠스 콜링』 제1권. 《해리포터》의 저자 조앤 K. 롤링이 로버트 갤브레이스라는 가명으로 펴낸 첫 소설로 그간의 성공을 등에 업지 않고 작품만으로 전 세계 언론으로부터 극찬을 받았다. 신인의 데뷔작이라고 하기에 완숙하고 세련된 완성도를 보여주었던 작품이기에 언젠가 유명 작가가 필명으로 출판한 작품으로 밝혀질지도 모른다는 의견이 있기도 했다. 영국에서 가장 잘나가는 톱모델인 룰라 랜드리가 자신의 집 발코니에서 떨어져 사망하고 경찰 수사는 자살로 종결된다. 사설 탐정 코모란 스트라이크를 찾은 그녀의 오빠는 여동생의 죽음에 대해 추가 조사를 해달라고 부탁한다. 파산 직전의 위기의 그는 울며 겨자 먹기로 의뢰를 수락하고 비서 로빈과 경찰이 간과한 증거와 증인들을 하나둘씩 파헤치며 사건을 조사해간다. 젊은 모델이 살아가던 화려한 세계를 파고들수록 고독, 욕망, 얽히고설킨 비밀들로 얼룩진 어두운 진실이 고개를 들고 끔찍한 위험이 점점 가까워오는데…….
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The Cuckoo's Calling

2013

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
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쿠쿠스 콜링. 1

2013

조앤 K. 롤링의 저력을 다시 한 번 확인할 수 있는 탐정 스릴러! 의문의 죽음을 맞은 슈퍼모델과 진실을 밝혀내려는 남자의 이야기를 담은 소설 『쿠쿠스 콜링』 제1권. 《해리포터》의 저자 조앤 K. 롤링이 로버트 갤브레이스라는 가명으로 펴낸 첫 소설로 그간의 성공을 등에 업지 않고 작품만으로 전 세계 언론으로부터 극찬을 받았다. 신인의 데뷔작이라고 하기에 완숙하고 세련된 완성도를 보여주었던 작품이기에 언젠가 유명 작가가 필명으로 출판한 작품으로 밝혀질지도 모른다는 의견이 있기도 했다. 영국에서 가장 잘나가는 톱모델인 룰라 랜드리가 자신의 집 발코니에서 떨어져 사망하고 경찰 수사는 자살로 종결된다. 사설 탐정 코모란 스트라이크를 찾은 그녀의 오빠는 여동생의 죽음에 대해 추가 조사를 해달라고 부탁한다. 파산 직전의 위기의 그는 울며 겨자 먹기로 의뢰를 수락하고 비서 로빈과 경찰이 간과한 증거와 증인들을 하나둘씩 파헤치며 사건을 조사해간다. 젊은 모델이 살아가던 화려한 세계를 파고들수록 고독, 욕망, 얽히고설킨 비밀들로 얼룩진 어두운 진실이 고개를 들고 끔찍한 위험이 점점 가까워오는데…….
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The Silkworm

2014

Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives—meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...
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Career of Evil

2015

Cormoran Strike is back, with his assistant Robin Ellacott, in a mystery based around soldiers returning from war. When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them… Career of Evil is the third in the series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. A mystery and also a story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.
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Lethal White

2018

“I seen a kid killed…He strangled it, up by the horse.” When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott—once his assistant, now a partner in the agency—set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been—Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that.
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Niespokojna krew. Część 2

2020

Gdy prywatny detektyw Cormoran Strike odwiedza w Kornwalii ciężko chorą ciotkę, kontaktuje się z nim kobieta, której matka w 1974 roku zaginęła w niewyjaśnionych okolicznościach. Strike jest zaintrygowany nigdy nie pracował nad sprawą sprzed kilkudziesięciu lat. Mimo nikłych szans na powodzenie dopisuje zlecenie do długiej listy dochodzeń, które prowadzi ze swoją wspólniczką Robin Ellacott. Tymczasem Robin boryka się z trudnościami w życiu prywatnym. Na dodatek zarówno ona, jak i Strike zmagają się z uczuciami, których doświadczają w łączącej ich relacji. Badając okoliczności zaginięcia kobiety, para detektywów staje w obliczu piekielnie skomplikowanych tropów, wśród których są psychopatyczny morderca, nie zawsze godni zaufania świadkowie, a także karty tarota. Okazuje się, że nawet sprawy sprzed dekad mogą stanowić śmiertelne zagrożenie.
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Troubled Blood

2020

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough—who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .
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The Ink Black Heart

2022

The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case. When frantic, disheveled 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 . . .
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The Running Grave

2023

In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult. Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her. . . Utterly pulse-pounding, The Running Grave moves Strike's and Robin's story forward in this epic, unforgettable seventh installment of the series.
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The Hallmarked Man

2025

The gripping eighth instalment in the internationally bestselling series.
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Cormoran Strike Series 4 Books Collection

2015

Cormoran strike series robert galbraith 4 books collection set. Titles In This Set:- The Cuckoo's Calling;The Silkworm;Career of Evil;Lethal White. Description: \- The Cuckoo's Calling: When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. \- The Silkworm: When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. \- Career of Evil: When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. \- Lethal White: When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story.
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Cormoran Strike Series Robert Galbraith 5 Books Collection Set

2020

'The work of a master storyteller' Daily Telegraph Robert Galbraith's Strike novels are some of the finest examples of detective fiction of our age. The series has sold well over a million copies in the UK alone, and has been adapted into a highly successful television series for the BBC. For the first time, readers can purchase all five paperbacks in the series in this exquisite deluxe box set. The Cuckoo's Calling The Silkworm Career of Evil Lethal White Troubled Blood PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES 'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian 'Reminds me why I fell in love with crime fiction in the first place' Val McDermid 'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' Mark Billingham 'Superbly constructed' Daily Mail

Authors

Robert Galbraith
Author · 13 books

This is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults. NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads. Rowling was born to Anne Rowling (née Volant) and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore. As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books. Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.

J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling
Author · 96 books

See also: Robert Galbraith Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore. As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books. Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.

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