Seven Strikes, still not out | Review of ‘The Running Grave’ by Robert Galbraith

Clearly, J.K. Rowling — or Robert Galbraith as she prefers to call herself in the Strike novels — has taken no note of the criticism in some quarters that her previous book, The Ink Black Heart, could have benefited from a careful, sparing use of the editorial scissor. At around 950 pages, The Running Grave, the latest and seventh novel in her series featuring Cormoran Strike, the craggily attractive one-legged detective, is around the same size. As one may expect, that familiar parallel plot — the suspenseful romantic tension between Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott — remains unbroken, unreleased. The Running Grave Robert Galbraith Hachette ₹999 The reviewer teaches philosophy at Krea University and is the former editor of ‘The Hindu’.