The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)

by Robert Galbraith

This was the first time Strike had ever met somebody who wanted an assurance their loved one was dead, rather than alive. This, he supposed, was the most extreme manifestation of a phenomenon with which he was only too familiar: a woman absolutely refusing to accept that her partner wasn’t what she thought him.

You know what they say: “all women know a rape victim, no man knows a rapist”.’