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Strike Recap: Cormoran, Robin and the Story So Far

Warning: contains major spoilers for The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil To a childhood friend, he’s Bunsen. To his sister, he’s Dick. To the colleague whose life he saved, he’s Bob, and to his ex-fiancee, he’s Bluey. In the US, they know him as C.B. Strike, but in the UK, he’s Cormoran Strike, a Cornish PI operating out of Soho’s Denmark Street. He’s the star of four – soon to be five – detective novels by Robert Galbraith (an alias of J.K. Rowling), and he’ll soon be back on BBC One starring in his fourth miniseries Strike:…
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Cormoran Strike: Why Now is the Right Time for the TV Detective’s Return

Contains spoilers for Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil The more incomprehensible and unsettling the real world gets, the more we welcome TV characters who make us feel safe. BBC One’s Cormoran Strike, a Cornish war veteran turned private investigator who operates out of a shabby Soho office, is reassurance personified. He’s a good man with sad eyes and a tragic past, the kind of TV detective you want to feed a shepherd’s pie and send away with a Tupperware full of leftovers.  Everything about Strike, from his smoking habit to his hidden pain and carbs-n-booze…
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