#WHO WRITES COROMON STRIKE SERIES SERIES#

#WHO WRITES COROMON STRIKE SERIES SERIES#

If that weren’t sufficient evidence, Rowling/Galbraith inserts a page at the half-way point of Lethal White that reads ‘Part Two.’ That book, however, does not have a page in either its hard cover or paperback editions that says ‘Part One.’ As if to confirm that this is the second part of the series rather than just this novel, i.e., “we are half way through the seven books,” the story line in Letal White that begins in Part Two is a repetition of the opening chapters of Cuckoo’s Calling, i.e., Cormoran accepting a case from a berieved relation of the deceased who does not believe that the death was a suicide. Lethal White has an overload of pointers to and echoes of Cuckoo’s Calling in it see ‘Cuckoo’s Calling: 25+ Lethal White Finds’ and ‘ Lethal White: Add Seven Cuckoo’s Echoes.’ A seven book series written in this fashion as we know from her Potter series and the story axis connecting Stone-Goblet-and Hallows, will have its story turn in book four with a bevy of parallel story points linking it with the first book. The evidence we have for that is based on Rowling’s structural near-fetish, namely, ring composition. The four books we have, though, in their structure and relationship one to another, are almost certainly a seven book set that may or may not run on from there. There may turn out to be more than seven. Rowling has since allowed in an interview about her BBC adaptations of the mysteries that the books are obviously a series. Rowling went on to say in interviews that there would be a whole bunch of Strike novels, as many as fourteen (“twelve more” after the second one), that they weren’t really a series, and it was open-ended rather than a closed set like Harry’s adventures. Rowling and the publishers were as eager to deny this as they were to express their disappointment that her cover had been blown.

In the news article run in the London Times that broke the story of Rowling writing under a pseudonym, a source at her publishers told the reporter that it was going to be a seven book series. (1) The Cormoran Strike Series is a Seven Book Series, y’know, like Harry Potter:

Here, then, is my list of three things about the Cormoran Strike novels that might encourage the most hesitant Rowling-reader and Wizarding World fan to give them a try. I haven’t written about this since the publication of Lethal White, however, and I think some facts about the series that the fourth book largely nailed down may interest the uber Potter-phile. I’ve written about this before - see ‘Five Reasons Harry Potter fans are not Interested in Cormoran Strike - Yet’ - and many of the reasons offered in that post are still valid the whole continued Galbraith pseudonym, for example, is not helping, right? It’s a mystery more puzzling than any of the murders solved by Holmes, Poirot, or Cormoran Strike. Why is Harry Potter fandom, a global population numbering in the hundreds of millions, so indifferent to the current series of detective novels written by J. Rowling as Robert Galbraith is writing a playful, intertextual re-visiting of Harry’s adventures in the Hogwarts Saga inside the Cormoran Strike mysteries.

Who writes coromon strike series