I don't usually make separate entries for the pseudonyms of the author on duty. But the case of J. K. Rowling It is that justified exception in the argument; on the border itself marked by the author; and in the reading public so different from the Potter universe.
Once you Robert galbraith channeled her international path in the black genre, the author herself enjoyed that incomplete disengagement that is the use of an alias. Probably because Rowling will never be able to separate from Potter, with the exception that literature gives much of itself to invent new signatures with which to distort and differentiate.
The point was for Rowling to turn that thick fog from hogwarts in another type of darkness that is born more from within the characters and that a new Sherlock called Cormoran Strike will have to face in diverse cases where evil leaves its mark.
With that use of the criminal with classic overtones personified in Cormoran, Galbraith places us in a current time where crimes and disappearances point to great enigmas for which only the best of instincts can find a clue.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Robert Galbraith
The song of the cuckoo
The first novel by a Galbraith who still jealously guarded his identity. A good plot supported since its departure by a great publishing label. But things didn't really take off until the Rowling seal was revealed. Perhaps its author would have preferred to remain anonymous, hoping that the power of a large publisher would be enough. One more proof of the difficult climb to publishing success.
However, the power of surprise makes this story that fascinating contrast between the fictions of JK Rowling and this new universe created from the antipodes of everything before.
A young model with emotional problems falls from her Mayfair balcony in the middle of the night. His body lies on the snowy street. Everyone assumes it was suicide, except for his brother, who hires the services of private investigator Cormoran Strike to handle the case.
A war veteran with physical and psychological consequences, Strike's life is a disaster. The assignment gives him some financial respite, but the deeper he delves into the model's complex world, the darker everything seems and the closer Strike gets to great danger.
An elegant mystery infused with the atmosphere of London, from the most exclusive streets of Mayfair to the hidden pubs of the East End or the bustle of Soho.
Lethal target
Already consolidated both the signature of Galbraith and his character Cormoran Strike, this novel already gives that appearance of a police plot sifted by environmental effects that play between the London that was and what it is today.
In addition, the personal plot of Cormoran Strike points to that stormy space in which the protagonist on duty has different struggles with his demons and personal problems, capable of making him lose his usual expertise and even his luck.
When Billy, a troubled young man, goes to Cormoran Strike's private office to ask for his help in investigating a crime he believes he witnessed as a child, Strike is perplexed. While Billy has obvious mental problems and can't remember many specific details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can ask any more questions, Billy, in a panic, runs out of his office.
Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott, his former assistant and now a partner in the agency, set out on a winding path that takes them through the alleys of London to the most hidden and secret rooms of Parliament, passing for a beautiful but sinister manor house lost in the country.
And as the investigation grows more and more labyrinthine, Strike's life is anything but simple: his newfound fame as a private detective implies the inability to operate unnoticed and the atmosphere in the office is more tense than ever. Robin is indispensable to Strike, but their personal relationship is complicated by the day.
The silkworm
The second part of the series is the one that to a greater extent sustains at the top that classic point of the police genre that plays between the most ruthless crime and the identities and games of light and shadow that any person subjected to a double life or pending debts Unspeakable can face even the most dramatic of his endings.
Second installment of the acclaimed series starring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, a peculiar couple who, due to their intelligence and determination, will delight fans of mystery and suspense stories.
The novelist Owen Quine's wife is convinced that her husband has gone away for a few days alone, as he has done on other occasions. So she goes to the private detective Cormoran Strike's office to ask him to find her husband and take him back home.
However, Cormoran discovers that there is much more to Quine's absence than his wife thinks. Owen had recently finished a manuscript in which he revealed the most compromising secrets of virtually everyone he knew. It is clear that the publication of the novel would ruin their lives, so, in theory, any of them would do anything to prevent the book from being published.
And when the theory comes true with the appearance of Quine's corpse, events are precipitated. Owen has been brutally murdered, with a cruelty Cormoran cannot recall ever seeing. Thus, stopping the culprit becomes an urgent task, for which Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, his effective assistant, have to use all their courage and cunning to identify the murderer and catch him as soon as possible.
Other recommended books by Robert Galbraith
Cloudy blood
The most exciting case of those that Rowling's alter ego has written, venting herself towards noir without wanting to splash between the channels of her different creative aspects. A juicy novel that you can't stop reading...
Private detective Cormoran Strike, who is in Cornwall visiting his family, is approached in the street by a woman who asks him for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough, who disappeared in 1974 under strange circumstances.
Although she has never faced a case that occurred so many years ago and is aware of the slim chances of success, Cormoran Strike and her agency partner, Robin Ellacott, who is still caught between a stormy divorce and her feelings for Cormoran , they end up accepting the case.
As they dive deeper into the investigation, the two detectives stumble upon a terribly complex story filled with tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer, and unreliable witnesses. Because even an event that occurred decades ago can be deadly.
