Troubled Blood

Troubled Blood has layers and layers. As with the other Cormoran Strike novels, Troubled Blood is infused with the grittiness and craziness of real life and how it impacts the main characters as they keep plugging onwards.

Cormoran and Robin are pulled in multiple directions by family, friends, and coworkers, their own traumas bleeding over and exposing their own all while trying to solve a thirty-plus-year-old missing person's case. The juggling act, especially when having to deal with Cormoran's aunt's approaching death, is heart-wrenching.

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J K Rowling, as Robert Galbraith, is the master of detailed, rich plots. The kind where when the final plot twist is delivered, you find yourself flicking back to page 102 and realizing you should have worked it out then. All the clues are there but perfectly hidden amongst incredibly well-developed characters.

Having read all her Strike novels, in my opinion, Troubled Blood is the zenith of the “oh no, what’s going to happen next?” thriller writing like in the earlier books in this series, without being slightly unwieldy in length like her later books.

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