The Ink Black Heart

Robert Galbraith

Aug 2022 · A Cormoran Strike Novel Book 6 · Sold by Mulholland Books

About this ebook

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 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 which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .

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

*Some of the more complex layouts in the book are rendered as images in the ebook version so that you can enlarge on your preferred reading device*

Ratings and reviews

after three chapters of drivel about the characters various romantic interests and history, followed by chat transcripts that might be related to the actual story, but are unreadable in the ebook format, I lost interest and requested a refund.

0/5. Pages and pages of fake tweets fill this book in the author's sad devolution and making the statement She Is Definitely Not Mad. It's rather sad to see how far the author has fallen because of a social media addiction and obsession with certain people. I suppose everyone around her is aware there is an issue but refuses to step in or are actively encouraging this break from reality. Once it was understood why Robert Galbraith is a contentious name to write under as an infamous bigot. It's quite easy for people to make the connection: "the woman who hates trans people is writing under the pen name of a man who created conversion therapy." The entire point of having a pseudonym is so people don't connect it to your real name and you can write what you please without issue. Taking the opposite route is purely about making more money and tying it to Rowling's fame. May update to include the end bc why not.

Author has to use a pseudonym to claim merits for her own alter ego while trashing the trans community in a sub par detective story that mimics the plot formula for any MAGA and network cookie cutter detective tv show. Boring at its best, exact plot plagerized.

About the author

Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy. Rowling’s original intention for writing under 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. The Strike Novels have topped the national and international bestseller lists and the series has been adapted for television, produced by Brontë Film and Television.