Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

by Robert Galbraith

Strike’s incurable predilection for getting to the root of puzzling incidents tended to inconvenience him quite as much as other people.

“So here I am, Mr. Strike, a fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.

“De mortuis nil nisi bonum?” asked Strike.

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm

… how happy I should feel if I could succeed in bringing a little light into all this murky ugliness. Henrik Ibsen, Rosmersholm