Cormoran Strike 5: Troubled Blood - Robert Galbraith - 9780751579956

<p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 1.13;">TROUBLED BLOOD is the next thrilling instalment in the highly acclaimed, international bestselling series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by Robert Galbraith, a pseudonym of J.K. Rowling.</span></p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;font-weight: bold;">Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021</span></p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">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.</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">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. Plus the pair are still battling their feelings for one another, while Robin is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention.</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">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 . . .</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, Troubled Blood is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet.</p><p><strong>Reviews:</strong></p><p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"Complex and enjoyable" - Sunday Mirror</span></p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"A magnificent addition to the Strike novels" - Sunday Times</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"Possibly her finest Strike outing yet, emblazoned with the rich vein of characterisation of the detective and his assistant Robin Ellacott" - ipaper</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"An ambitious, immersive mystery that also reveals ever more about the enigmatic Cormoran" - Heat</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"The sizzling sexual tension between [Strike and Robin] is hotter than ever" - Best</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"A scrupulous potter and master of misdirection, Galbraith keeps the pages turning ... Strike and Ellacott ... remain one of crime's most engaging duos" - Guardian</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"A mix of supernatural eeriness and head-scratching mystery with a juicy whodunnit at its core" - the Sun</p><p style="background-color: #ffffff;color: #333333;font-family: Arial;font-size: 10pt;font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;line-height: 1.13;">"Galbraith ... is fluent in invention of incident, characters, conversation and confrontations" - The Scotsman</p><p><strong>About the author:</strong></p><p>Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy. All five Strike novels, The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, and Troubled Blood, topped the national and international bestseller lists and the series has been adapted for television, produced by Bronte Film and Television.</p>