Troubled Blood

Cormoran Strike, Book 5

By: Robert Galbraith

Narrated by: Robert Glenister

Shortlisted for the Audiobook of the Year Award at the British Book Awards

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one 40 years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on.

Robin herself is juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly....

A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, Troubled Blood is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Robert Galbraith (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"A blistering piece of crime writing." (Sunday Times)

"The work of a master storyteller." (Daily Telegraph)

"Highly inventive storytelling." (Guardian)

Brilliant!

Amazing intricate story and beautiful ending. It was a great listen thanks to the brilliant performance of Robert Glenister.

MORE PLEASE!!

These are some of the best books I have ever listened to. Extremely well written with many intricate characters which keeps you captivated all through the story.
The narrator does a superb job of voicing the characters leaving you never doubting who is talking.
Simply brilliant!! Please please continue the series.

Brilliant brilliant brilliant!

Love this series - the excellent detail and development of every character and scene is captivating, helped along by
the superb narrator who brings this outstanding series to life.
Best series I have ever listened to.

Another deep and light study of humanity

I loved this book. I got immersed, again, into the many facets of the characters, threads are woven naturally. Life and death, love and hate, friendship, ridicule... The crimes reveal the everchanging hues of humanity, fragile, heroic, pathetic, deranged. Another handbook on human relations from which you emerge a better person. Well done.
Like the four other novels, I first got the audiobook, read by Robert Glenister, and I really love the way he renders the voices. Robin and Strike are vivid, alive in their own right.

Imperfect nature

The STRIKE series are the best private detective books I have ever read or listened to. The characters are very real and Robert Glenister is an amazing narrator, so many accents so many different people covered flawlessly
Can’t wait for the next one though I realise these books must take a huge amount of time to organise and write
When a character like Strike appears it is hard not to imagine him as real
Thank you RG or should I say JKR