Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith, Book Review
You can’t escape your past. I know that for a fact, I’ve tried. Unsuccessfully. And so did our two protagonists, Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. Neither Strike, a former military police officer, now a private investigator, nor Robin, his secretary and an aspiring investigator, can shake off their past. Imagine trying to build a new life, a career, relationships, and pretending that your past will never catch up with you. But then it finally does. In ‘Career of Evil’, all hell breaks loose when a severed leg is delivered to Robin. It continues with a finger and ends with …. You’ll have to read it, this book with its satisfyingly complex plot and its many twists and turns. If you like Jack Reacher, then you will love Strike. The author Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling, is more generous than Lee Child. You get a wider range of evil suspects with varying degrees of depravity, a sharper drawn supporting cast – an altogether fuller picture. Set mainly in L...