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Robert discusses research and symbolism

From lions to A Maid of the Silver Sea, listen to Robert discuss research and themes of symbolism behind latest novel, The Hallmarked Man.

What is a pigpen cipher?

Listen to Robert explain what a pigpen cipher is and how it appears in latest novel, The Hallmarked Man. There’s also a cipher for you to solve!

How would you describe The Hallmarked Man in three words?

Listen to Robert describe latest novel, The Hallmarked Man, in three words!

Robert Galbraith discusses The Hallmarked Man

Robert Galbraith expands on the case Strike and Robin take in the eighth book for the first time.

Strike and Money

When people hear about Comoran Strike's parentage, their thoughts leap at once to trust funds and handsome hand-outs, but Strike has never wanted anything to do with his father’s wealth.

The Ink Black Heart Epigraph Crossword

What is your inspiration for the epigraphs?

From famous female poets to iconic locations, listen to Robert expand on his vision for the epigraphs in The Ink Black Heart.

Epigraphs in The Ink Black Heart

All of the Robert Galbraith novels chronicling the investigations of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott make extensive use of epigraphs. Sometimes the quotations in a novel come from a single work as in Lethal White, where they are all from Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen, or The Running Grave where they come from the I Ching, […]

BBC release first-look photos from Strike – The Ink Black Heart

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are returning to our screens this December for STRIKE – THE INK BLACK HEART, the sixth (4 x 60 minute) story of the BBC’s hit crime drama in co-production with HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery and adapted from J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novels written under … Continued

Folklore, Magic and Witches in Strike

She went to the bar, where she waited beneath the hanging skulls and fake cobwebs. The barman had painted his face like Frankenstein’s monster. Troubled Blood, Robert Galbraith The murder investigations that Robin and Strike are drawn into always have very human causes, but that doesn’t mean the detectives don’t occasionally brush up against the […]