The Ink Black Heart
By Robert Galbraith
1012 pages
What’s it about?
Cormoran Strike and Robin Elliott are partners in a private detective agency in London. In the sixth book of the Cormoran Strike series we find Robin and Strike dancing around their mutual attraction as they try to find the true identity of an online presence that is threatening their client. When threats turn to murder the stakes just get higher.What did it make me think about?
Robert Galbraith (also known as J.K. Rowling) writes a great mystery!Should I read it?
I look forward to a new installment in this series about once a year. They are LONG, complex mysteries with lots of twists and turns. And although the plot is always fast- the characters are equally appealing. Can I say that I am ready for Robin and Strike to finally get together? My only other issue with this book was that the online chat threads (which are posted simultaneously on a page) were cumbersome to read. However I have no idea how this plot would have been presented without the chat threads, so just be prepared to slow down a little every few pages. This would be another book that you could easily keep a chart of characters- there are so many…. I just plowed through and ended up really enjoying this one. Don’t let the length discourage you- this is a solid mystery novel with lots to recommend.Quote-
“The older Strike got, the more he’d come to believe that in a prosperous country, in peacetime – notwithstanding those heavy blows of fate to which nobody was immune, and those strokes of unearned luck of which Inigo, the inheritor of wealth, had clearly benefited – character was the most powerful determinant of life’s course.”What’s it about?
Cormoran Strike and Robin Elliott are partners in a private detective agency in London. In the sixth book of the Cormoran Strike series we find Robin and Strike dancing around their mutual attraction as they try to find the true identity of an online presence that is threatening their client. When threats turn to murder the stakes just get higher.
What did it make me think about?
Robert Galbraith (also known as J.K. Rowling) writes a great mystery!
Should I read it?
I look forward to a new installment in this series about once a year. They are LONG, complex mysteries with lots of twists and turns. And although the plot is always fast- the characters are equally appealing. Can I say that I am ready for Robin and Strike to finally get together? My only other issue with this book was that the online chat threads (which are posted simultaneously on a page) were cumbersome to read. However I have no idea how this plot would have been presented without the chat threads, so just be prepared to slow down a little every few pages. This would be another book that you could easily keep a chart of characters- there are so many…. I just plowed through and ended up really enjoying this one. Don’t let the length discourage you- this is a solid mystery novel with lots to recommend.
Quote-
“The older Strike got, the more he’d come to believe that in a prosperous country, in peacetime – notwithstanding those heavy blows of fate to which nobody was immune, and those strokes of unearned luck of which Inigo, the inheritor of wealth, had clearly benefited – character was the most powerful determinant of life’s course.”
