Below is the complete list of Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike books in order of publication. This is the recommended reading sequence for the series. Cormoran Strike Books in Publication Order About Cormoran Strike Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series is one…
The Hallmarked Man sends Strike and Robin into a case that is grisly from the outset and unusually tangled even by this series’ standards. A dismembered body is discovered in the vault of a silver shop, and while police think…
The Running Grave sends Strike and Robin into one of their most dangerous cases when a desperate father asks them to help rescue his adult son from a religious group in rural Norfolk. On the surface, the Universal Humanitarian Church…
The Ink Black Heart begins when Robin is approached by Edie Ledwell, the co-creator of a cult animated series who is being harassed online by a shadowy figure using the name Anomie. Robin turns the job down, but when Edie…
Troubled Blood gives the series its most intricate cold case up to that point. While visiting family in Cornwall, Strike is approached by a woman who wants him to investigate the disappearance of her mother, Margot Bamborough, who vanished in…
A disturbed young man named Billy walks into Strike’s office claiming he witnessed a child being killed years earlier, and although his story is fragmented, it unsettles Strike enough that he cannot dismiss it. That moment sends him and Robin…
Career of Evil gives the Strike series its darkest and most personal turn so far. The case begins when Robin Ellacott receives a horrifying package, immediately making it clear that this is not just another investigation arriving at the office,…
The Silkworm takes Cormoran Strike into a much stranger, nastier corner of London literary life. What begins as a missing-person case—novelist Owen Quine has disappeared after apparently storming off again—quickly grows darker once Strike realizes Quine’s latest manuscript is full…
The Cuckoo’s Calling introduces Cormoran Strike at a low point in his life: broke, newly alone, and running a struggling detective agency out of a shabby London office. Then a high-profile case lands on his desk when the brother of…