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Career of Evil

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25th October 2018

Price: £10.99

Audies Award, 2016

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780751563597

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‘Deliriously clever’ GUARDIAN

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Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.

Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.

With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them…

A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. You will not be able to put this book down.

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PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES:

‘One of the most unique and compelling detectives I’ve come across in years‘ MARK BILLINGHAM

‘The work of a master storyteller’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Unputdownable. . . Irresistible’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘Will keep you up all night’ OBSERVER

‘A thoroughly enjoyable classic’ PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS

Reviews

Evening Standard
This one gripped
Mail on Sunday
Thoroughly enjoyable
Scotland on Sunday
A book that abounds with ideas
Metro
Oozes atmosphere . . . a rollicking good story
Irish Times
Strike is a compelling creation . . . this is terrifically entertaining stuff
Daily Telegraph
Fans of the intrepid duo are in for some shocks . . . as readable and exciting as ever
Guardian
A confident hold on a deliriously clever plot
New York Times
Strike and Robin are just as magnetic as ever
Independent
Quirkily different... let's hope the sardonic Strike is here to stay
Literary Review
Robert Galbraith . . . again demonstrates that rare, inexplicable and indefinable gift: once started, one simply can't put [his] books down
Observer
A page-turner with legs that will keep you up all night
Morning Star
The real joy of this series comes from the originality of the characters
Sun
Criminally good stuff
The Times
The denouement is violent, unexpected and satisfying . . . [an] entertaining novel
Sunday Mirror
[A] smart and addictive thriller