Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike Series in Order (2024)

The first book introduces us to our P.I., Cormoran Strike: an Afghanistan war vet with a prosthetic leg, living in his office, who is struggling to keep his business afloat. But like all great detective novels, in walks a client with a case that may finally solve Strike’s money and business problems. A brother who refuses to believe his famous sister died by suicide and wants to hire Strike to prove it. We’re also introduced to Robin Ellacott, who starts her temp job as Strike’s secretary—Gal Friday?—and you’ll find yourself quickly rooting for them to be a crime-solving team.

This time, we have a missing author and a wife who hires Strike to find him and bring him back—as a wife does, apparently, when her man has run off. Except it turns out the missing author has just finished a manuscript that reveals things about everyone he knows, things that no one would want to be published so clearly he has plenty of enemies that would want to harm him…

The third book in the series hits close to home for our P.I., as Ellacott opens a package to find a severed leg—I know! Strike thinks that four people from his past could be responsible. That’s a lot of horrible people to know, my dude. Anyhoo, with the police convinced they know who is responsible, Strike isn’t so sure, so he and Ellacott, of course, do their own sleuthing.

P.I. work is difficult enough without the client, who appears mentally distressed, running out in the middle of hiring a P.I. So Strike and Ellacott not only have to try and figure out what crime their client witnessed as a child, but that’s made even more difficult for Strike now that he’s a “celebrity” P.I. I mean, sleuthing involves a lot of being able to be invisible, so good luck with that, man. Also, get your relationships in order! Yeah, I’m being vague—you’ll just have to read the series to see why.

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 . . .

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 ofThe 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 . . .

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. . .