Like the books, each season tackles a new standalone mystery, but the character development and progression run throughout the series.

A troubled and mentally distressed young man named Billy asks Strike to investigate a crime he witnessed as a child. Anomie seals new registrations to the game, but Robin manages to gain access via a previously created account. Will leaves the church with his daughter and Pat, the office manager, who it is revealed is 67 and a great-grandmother, lets them stay with her. Strike is in fact responsible for saving Anstis's life during that incident, for which Anstis is always aware and grateful, even though their professional relationship is sometimes placed under great strain. Anomie turns out to be a disgruntled fan who was attempting to exert control on the production and was aggravated by the decision to move The Ink Black Heart from YouTube to Netflix and to make a film.Of course, Galbraith’s identity didn’t stay secret for long or we still wouldn’t know about it today. When Robin Ellacott enters the picture, she's essentially the missing piece in his life – though neither of them realise it.

Having met at Oxford University, Cormoran left shortly after the start of their liaison for the army because of the traumatic and tragic death of his mother. One of his children then hires Strike to investigate the death, because she believes her stepmother was behind it.

Richard Anstis: A detective with the Metropolitan Police and a TA officer who was present at the incident that cost Strike his leg. Robin, believing there is nothing they can do, brushes him off until days later when she’s reading the paper and discovers the man has been murdered. A fourth series, an adaptation of Lethal White, aired as four episodes in August and September 2020.

Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. Strike sets a successful trap to catch the Shacklewell Ripper and drives all night to arrive at Robin's wedding ceremony at the end of the novel. 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 police's principal suspect in the disappearance was a then unidentified serial killer named Dennis Creed, now incarcerated in Broadmoor. Ilsa is a lawyer who grew up with Strike in Cornwall; Strike recruits Ilsa to assist one of his clients in the second novel. Elderly Uncle Ted, who did his best to protect the young Cormoran and his half-sister Lucy from the consequences of their chaotic mother’s peripatetic lifestyle, is sinking into dementia. Their client's autistic son, Will, has lived in their grounds for four years, emptying his trust fund into their accounts and not even leaving for his mother's funeral. Although their office is bombed by members of The Halvening, their investigation leads them to believe that it is not, in fact, The Halvening that is responsible for Ledwell's murder.

The sixth book in the series, The Ink Black Heart, was announced earlier this year – but it was only today that the cover and synopsis were revealed. The UHC, which presents as a benign organisation with worthy aims, has a charismatic leader known as Papa J, some high-profile followers, a lot of prime real estate, and expensive lawyers to rebut any claims of indoctrination or ill treatment. Later, Robin makes a decision while investigating one of their suspects that has profound and shocking consequences for their relationship, as Strike fires her and she then heads off to marry her fiancé Matthew. K. Rowling keeps expanding her already peerless skills in crafting drama, emotion, urgency, and capturing the infinite complexities of the human spirit—in dark and in light.The only books JK Rowling has published under her Robert Galbraith pseudonym are the Cormoran Strike books. He is forced to begin restraining these appetites in the sixth novel as they begin taking a toll on his health.