Troubled Blood: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021

Robert Galbraith

Sep 2020 · Strike Book 5 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

***The 7th novel in the Strike series, THE RUNNING GRAVE, is coming in September 2023. Pre-order now and be the first to read it***


Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year Award 2021

'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian

'Magnificent' Sunday Times

'Finely honed, superbly constructed' Daily Mail

'Terrific' Daily Express

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.

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.

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 . . .

A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, Troubled Blood is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet.


Praise for the Strike series:

'A blistering piece of crime writing'
Sunday Times

'The work of a master storyteller'
Daily Telegraph

'Unputdownable'
Daily Express

'Highly inventive storytelling'
Guardian

'Superb . . . an ingenious whodunnit'
Sunday Mirror

'Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'
Independent

'Outrageously entertaining'
Financial Times

Ratings and reviews

Don't just go for purchase Its soo boring!! almost first three chapters are just about boring conversations between people which u will get so bored of reading and no events or dramas .Than next two chapters are just talks about those conversations with only few mysteries sad. Like there is no suspense and only few mystery in it rest are just boring dialogue which waster our time.

Terribly written and horribly transphobic, Jk's worst work and yet another failed attempt to write a decent book that's not Harry Potter

One of the best books I've ever read. I started with this one in the series without realising it was actually the 5th book. So much detail in the characters and the actual case and mystery thrown in I could've easily read the book if it was another thousand pages long.

About the author

Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy. The previous six Strike novels, The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil, Lethal White, Troubled Blood and The Ink Black Heart topped the national and international bestseller lists and the series has been adapted for television, produced by Brontë Film and Television.