Forty years later, Margot’s daughter is determined to find out what happened to her. A botched police investigation meant she was never found. In 1974, a doctor, Margot Bamborough, disappeared from her surgery in Clerkenwell. The agency’s newest case, meanwhile, is in fact a very old one. Galbraith’s unhurried examination of their emotional turmoil adds depth to both characters and convincingly stokes the simmering tensions between them. Ellacott is contending with a messy divorce and the unwelcome attentions of the agency’s newest hire, handsome ex-police officer Saul Morris. Strike’s aunt, who brought him up, is terminally ill he and his sister are at loggerheads and his tricky ex-fiancee, now married with twins, isn’t going away quietly. A year on from Lethal White, both are juggling work with complicated personal lives. Troubled Blood will, I suspect, divide readers in much the same way.įor those Strike aficionados long captivated by the will-they-won’t-they relationship between the detective and his agency partner, Robin Ellacott, there is much to be savoured. The fifth Harry Potter was a similar whopper, dividing the legions of fans ecstatic to be gifted so much Hogwarts from its critics, who wearied of the boy wizard’s adolescent angst and longed for something to actually happen. Galbraith, otherwise known as JK Rowling, has form. Clocking in at a cool 927 pages, the fifth Cormoran Strike novel knocks Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light off the top spot for the biggest big book of 2020. R obert Galbraith’s Troubled Blood is not for the faint of wrist.
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