Cormoran Strike
| Cormoran Strike | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Cuckoo's Calling |
| Created by | Robert Galbraith |
| Portrayed by | Tom Burke |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Private detective |
| Nationality | British |
| Author | J. K. Rowling (under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime fiction, mystery |
| Publisher | Sphere Books (Little, Brown and Company) |
| Published | April 2013 - present |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) Audiobook E-book |
| No. of books | 3 (currently) |
Cormoran Strike is the eponymous character of a series of crime fiction books written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the many cases of private investigator Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott.
On 10 December 2014, it was announced that the novels would be adapted as an eponymous television series for BBC One.
In 2010, Cormoran Strike—private investigator, ex-SIB investigator and the illegitimate son of a famous rock star (by an affair with a notorious groupie) who lost part of a leg in a bombing in Afghanistan—is broke, and his birth father's business agent is calling in the loan that he gave to Strike to open his office.
The first book is about how Strike is hired by John Bristow, the adopted brother of supermodel Lula Landry, who had fallen from her balcony three months previously. Bristow wants Strike to investigate his sister's supposed suicide. Strike also meets Robin Ellacott, who has been sent to be his temporary secretary despite the fact he can barely afford her. Robin has just become engaged to her longtime boyfriend Matthew, with a wedding set later that year. Although Strike only hires her for one week, she turns out to be much more competent than he expected, and they end up extending her stay.
Near the first book's end, before Robin leaves for her next job, Strike gives Robin a green silk dress she had tried on and loved when they had gone searching for information at a dress shop that Lula had frequented. Finally, the two decide that Robin will stay on.
The second book is about how Strike is approached by Leonora Quine with a plea to locate her husband, the notorious writer Owen Quine, who has disappeared without a trace. Quine, once hailed as one of the original literary rebels—presented as the literary world's version of music's punk rock scene—has struggled for years to recreate the success of his original novel and has fallen out of public view. Strike discovers that his disappearance coincides with the leak of the manuscript for his latest novel, Bombyx Mori. The London literary community considers Bombyx Mori to be unpublishable; an unpleasant mix of rape, sadomasochism, torture, necrophilia and cannibalism, the hero is eventually tricked and eaten alive by various characters who are thinly-veiled metaphors for people in Quine's life whom he considers responsible for the destruction of his career.
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