Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are back, this time investigating a yet unsolved murder with multiple leads. Galbraith/Rowling kept giving me much more information than I could process, riddling and entangling me and fixing me quite firmly to the unfolding story. As always, that isn’t the only case the agency is dealing with, so, apart from the two detectives’ private lives, there’s lots to divert us from finding out what happened. We spent almost nine months with Robin and Cormoran this time, switching perspectives between the two, which often enough provides a second view on the same events. I’d have loved to see more of the other characters, especially the agency’s team. But Rowling made up for that a bit towards the end.
She includes online messages, newspaper clippings, and a few other techniques into the narrative, starts each chapter with a quote (which I usually had to read twice) and once more adds real life events to the story.
I didn’t figure out how everything was connected until I was told and found it gripping till the very end. “Ellacott/Strike” continues to be one of my favourite book series.
