Things aren’t going well between Robin and her husband and their relationship drama is played out expertly as the novel progresses. A lot of time is spent filling the pages with beautiful, if turbulent, wedding imagery setting the tense tone for the rest of the book. Lethal White is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike detective series and follows on directly after where the previous book, Career of Evil, left off. I managed to pick up a copy of Lethal White from the shop I volunteer at, another lucky find for me! I wasn’t intending to read it so soon, but I figured reading two 550+ page books in one month just wasn’t enough, and had to fit another one in! Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been – Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much more tricky than that. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s story, Strike and Robin Ellacott – once his assistant, now a partner in the agency – set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.Īnd during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike’s own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled.

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