The ink black heart
Title:
The ink black heart
Author:
Galbraith, Robert.
ISBN:
9780316413039
Edition:
First North American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Physical Description:
1012 p. ; 25 cm
Series:
A Cormoran Strike novel
Cormoran Strike novel.
Series Title:
A Cormoran Strike novel
Cormoran Strike novel.
Abstract:
When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation.The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure whogoes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this--and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of onlie aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits-and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways... A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
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Geographic Term:
Subject:
| Private investigators -- England -- London -- Fiction. |
| Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction. |
| Online trolling -- Fiction. |
| Cyberbullying -- Fiction. |
| Online social networks -- Fiction. |
| Stalkers -- Fiction. |
| England -- Fiction. |
| Strike, Cormoran (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. |
Summary:
When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation.The cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure whogoes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie's true identity. Robin decides that the agency can't help with this--and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of onlie aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits-and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways... A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.