The Ink Black Heart

Its place in Cormoran Strike

The Ink Black Heart is book 6 in the Cormoran Strike series. It follows Troubled Blood. It is followed by The Running Grave. See the full Cormoran Strike reading order.

Cormoran Strike is a one-legged Afghanistan veteran turned private detective, working London's less glamorous end of the trade out of a cramped Denmark Street office, when his temp secretary Robin Ellacott turns out to have a genuine gift for surveillance and deduction. Written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the series is old-fashioned detective fiction at heart — proper puzzle-box mysteries with red herrings, closed suspect lists and a satisfying reveal — dressed in very contemporary…