when frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, prívate detective Robín 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. Robín 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 of The Ink Black Heart. Robín 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 Robín find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits—and that threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . .
A gripping, fiendishly clever mys-tery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour de forcé. “A crime series deeply rooted in the real world, where brutality and ugliness are leavened by the oh-so-human flaws and virtues of Galbraith’s irresistible hero and heroine.”