11 Facts About Cormoran Strike

1.

Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author JK Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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2.

Cormoran Strike lost the lower half of his right leg in an attack in Afghanistan.

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3.

Cormoran Strike had previously studied at Oxford, but left in his second year to join the Army following the death of his mother.

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4.

Cormoran Strike has just split from his long term partner and fiancee, Charlotte Campbell, who immediately marries another man.

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5.

Cormoran Strike is closest to his half-sister Lucy, with whom he grew up, though he has seven other half-siblings and one half-brother who is the son of his mother and her last husband Jeff Whittaker.

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6.

Cormoran Strike is approached by Leonora Quine with a plea to locate her husband, notorious writer Owen Quine, who has seemingly disappeared without trace.

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7.

Cormoran Strike discovers that his disappearance coincides with the leak of a manuscript for his latest novel, Bombyx Mori.

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8.

Cormoran Strike identifies four potential suspects from his past whom he believes would be capable of such crimes but, as the police want to concentrate on the one Cormoran Strike believes to be least likely, they set out to investigate the other three.

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9.

One of his children then hires Cormoran Strike to investigate the death, because she believes her stepmother was behind it.

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10.

Cormoran Strike induces him to confess to one of the last unsolved murders he was long suspected of, before revealing he has already deduced the identity of Bamborough's real killer.

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11.

Ellacott and Cormoran Strike then receive a request to investigate the case made by those at the production company who are planning to turn the franchise into a feature film.

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