Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been-Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much trickier than that. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott-once his assistant, now a partner in the agency-set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.Īnd during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. That long scar down the bride’s arm had put him off her from the start. Good-looking as they were, he didn’t fancy the Cunliffes’ chances.
He still kept, for the amusement of friends, the blurred shot from 1998 that showed a groom head-butting his best man. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. One bride had stormed out of her own reception. PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES: One of the most unique and compelling detectives Ive come across in years MARK BILLINGHAM The work of a master storyteller DAILY TELEGRAPH Unputdownable. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. Epic and enthralling, Lethal White is the gripping fourth instalment in the ongoing story of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. Lethal White is the fourth (4th) book in the Cormoran Strike series, written by Robert Galbraith (J. When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. “I seen a kid killed…He strangled it, up by the horse.”
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