![]() ![]() The last book, Career of Evil, saw Strike firing Robin after she put herself in danger and jeopardized a case, only to regret his decision almost at once and show up at her wedding to Matthew, where he begged her to return to his detective agency. The banter-laden tension between the two provides the through-line that propels the Galbraith mysteries along their way. Strike and Robin are kindred spirits in crime-fighting and mystery-solving, but they’re forever kept apart - Robin by her engagement to the weak and feckless Matthew, and Strike by his belief that he is too broken for a committed relationship. These books are loosely standalone: The mystery in each one is self-contained, but the character relationships evolve over time, most chiefly the fraught and yearning partnership between detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant-turned-equal Robin. Lethal White is the fourth volume in Rowling’s Robert Galbraith series, with at least seven books planned. ![]() ![]() It’s not a perfect book, but it is deeply fun. It’s the kind of book you can get lost in for days, that you want to swallow down in one long satisfying gulp. Rowling publishes under the pen name Robert Galbraith, is addictively immersive. ![]() Lethal White, the latest of the detective novels J.K. ![]()
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