The Ink Black Heart

Book Details

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Author(s):

Robert Galbraith

First Pub:

2022

Genre(s):

Crime; Detective Fiction; Mystery; Thriller

First Read:

Unknown

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Internal ID:

13850

Series:

<- Troubled Blood - The Running Grave ->

Cormoran Strike*

#6 of 7

Cormoran Strike*

A Crime Mystery series written by J K Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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1) The Cuckoo's Calling
2) The Silkworm
3) Career of Evil
4) Lethal White
5) Troubled Blood
6) The Ink Black Heart
7) The Running Grave

First Sentence:

Of all the couples sitting in the Rivoli Bar at the Ritz that Thursday evening, the pair that was having the most conspicuously good time was not, in fact, a couple.

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Added: 09-Feb-2024

Last Updated: 13-Mar-2024

Publications

25-Oct-2022

Hachette Audio

Book on CD

Date Issued:

25-Oct-2022

Format:

Book on CD

Cover Price:

$50.00

Length:

32 hrs 42 min (1448 pages)

Catalog ID:

40fz5z

Cover Link(s):

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

43539

Publisher:

Hachette Audio

ISBN:

1-668-60084-6

ISBN-13:

978-1-668-60084-9

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Arigato - Cover Images
Robert Glenister - Narration
iStockphoto - Cover Images
Shutterstock - Cover Images
Duncan Spilling - Cover Design
Duncan Spilling - Cover Images

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 cocreator 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 that threatens them in new and horrifying ways...

A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour de force.

"A scrupulous plotter and master of misdirection,
Galbraith keeps the pages turning." - THE GUARDIAN

ROBERT GALBRAITH is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy. The Ink Black Heart is the sixth book in the highly acclaimed Cormoran Strike crime fiction series. robert-galbraith.com

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Notes and Comments:

27 CDs

Author(s)

Robert Galbraith

Notes:

This is a pseudonym for J K Rowling.

From amazon.com:

Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series is classic contemporary crime fiction from a master story-teller, rich in plot, characterisation and detail. Galbraith’s debut into crime fiction garnered acclaim amongst critics and crime fans alike. The first three novels The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013), The Silkworm (2014) and Career of Evil (2015) all topped the national and international bestseller lists and have been adapted for television, produced by Brontë Film and Television. The fourth in the series, Lethal White (2018), is out now.

Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults. After Harry Potter, the author chose crime fiction for her next books, a genre she has always loved as a reader. She wanted to write a contemporary whodunit, with a credible back story.

J.K. Rowling’s original intention for writing as Robert Galbraith was for the books to be judged on their own merit, and to establish Galbraith as a well-regarded name in crime in its own right.

Now Robert Galbraith’s true identity is widely known, J.K. Rowling continues to write the crime series under the Galbraith pseudonym to keep the distinction from her other writing and so people will know what to expect from a Cormoran Strike novel.

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