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All those who have been waiting for the paperback release of Robert Galbraith’s Career of Evil will be pleased to know that the date is set for just over 3 weeks time, on the 21st April.
The announcement was made via the Robert Galbraith Facebook page, where we’re invited to ‘Strike down to publication’ with them:
To those who haven’t read the book (or the series) yet, this is the perfect opportunity to buy them all in paperback – J.K. Rowling has done an amazing job via Robert Galbraith, with Career of Evil earning amazing ratings: 4.2 stars on Goodreads, 4.5 on Amazon.
We’ll let the reviews speak for themselves!
“Quirkily different… let’s hope the sardonic Strike is here to stay” (Independent)
“The denouement is violent, unexpected and satisfying . . . [an] entertaining novel” (The Times)
“Fans of the intrepid duo are in for some shocks . . . as readable and exciting as ever” (Daily Telegraph)
“A confident hold on a deliriously clever plot”(Guardian)
“The real joy of this series comes from the originality of the characters” (Morning Star)
“Robert Galbraith . . . again demonstrates that rare, inexplicable and indefinable gift: once started, one simply can’t put [his] books down” (Literary Review)
“Strike is a compelling creation . . . this is terrifically entertaining stuff” (Irish Times)
Read more reviews on ‘The New Queen of Crime’ here, and an interview with J.K. Rowling on the series here!
A signed copy of J.K. Rowling’s new crime novel, Career of Evil, was put up for auction. J.K. Rowling would probably approve of this donation from one of the lucky owners of a signed book, as the book was auctioned for a good cause, for local charity, Brighouse and Surrounding Homeless.
There are only 200 signed copies of the Robert Galbraith book, making the demand for this item at the silent auction very high. The book had a reserve of £1,000. Big House Echo recorded a statement about the charity being supported:
Alison Mitchell, chief Executive of BASH, said: “We provide an outreach service that connects those in need with the charities and services they may not have otherwise known about whilst offering food, clothing and friendly faces.
Thanks to donations we can provide food, drink and clothing. More importantly we can provide a listening ear.
The results from Friday’s auction have not been released. However, we hope that Career of Evil was able to at least break its reserve, and provide a lot of monetary donation for BASH.
Robert Galbraith’s latest novel. Career of Evil, has made it to the final round of Goodreads 2015 Choice Awards. It is up for an award in the “Best Mystery and Thriller” category.
However, it has not won yet. In this final round Robert and Jo need your vote! Up against titles such as Stephen King’s Finders Keepers, and this years hit, The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, Career of Evil will need your votes.
You can vote here, on Goodreads. Voting is open from now until November 23rd–vote now!
It’s here so take a listen! The newest episode of our Cormoran Strike podcast, “The Strike Files,” is available on iTunes or here on the show’s website; it covers the second twenty (plus a little extra because we can’t stop ourselves, or, maybe, one of us can’t) chapters of Career of Evil, the latest book in the Strike series. Enjoy!
The newest episode of the Cormoran Strike podcast, “The Strike Files,” is out! You can check it out on iTunes or here on the show’s website; it covers the first twenty chapters of Career of Evil, the latest book in the Strike series. Enjoy!
J.K. Rowling talks about being ousted as Robert Galbraith, the extensive research and planning that went into Career of Evil, her relationship with the characters (as we know she was very close to all of her Harry Potter characters), and keeping her family life private.
As J.K. Rowling tweeted, and mentions in the interview, her research for the novel gave her nightmares. That research involved reading case studies of real psychopaths, in order to grasp a mind set that is so far removed from her own. (J.K. Rowling would never hurt a fly). She worked hard to keep things terrifying and real, but not crossing the line of what she calls “violence porn.”
Many fans love Robin, and root for her and Strike, while discounting Matthew. However, readers don’t know her background, as they will discover within this novel. J.K. Rowling talks in length about Robin being a survivor and and a victim. (For those who don’t want to be spoiled, this part of the interview takes place at the time marker 13-14:30 minutes.)
When asked about her family on Morning Edition, Jo cut off the David, saying that is something she never discusses, particularly her kids. As we know, Jo is known for being protective of her family. She does receive a lot of support for this decision from her fans, who, in turn, are very protective of their her, their favorite author.
Excerpts of the segment transcripts can be read at the links provided above, and some here:
On her relationship to Strike, she says: “It would be wrong, wholly wrong, to suggest he’s an autobiographical character — he’s a disabled veteran, he’s a man, obviously … however there are things that I like in him, and that I would like to feel that we share. He has a very strong work ethic. He is a tryer, in all circumstances. And at the point where we meet him in the very first book, he is absolutely on his uppers, in a way that I too have experienced, in that he is as poor as you can be without being homeless.”
On Strike and discussing the oddities of fame, Rowling explains: It’s at a remove, because he himself when the series starts is not famous, but he’s the son of a famous man — so he has all of the drawbacks of being associated with fame and none of the advantages. So I look at the effect that an individual’s fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent — of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards. And I find that an interesting area, and obviously yes that very much comes from my own experience.
On keeping her family private
There’s going to be debate around this as long as there are writers. Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there’s the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle. I think it’s difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books. But at the same time, I don’t feel I owe my readers details of my family’s private life, for example. So I’m happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that’s always been off-limits. Of course, if my kids grow up and they want to write memoirs about what it was like, then that’s their right, and they should feel free to do it, and we may yet see J.K. Dearest! But until then, I’m going to protect them.
The Guardian reports that J.K. Rowling is set to give her first on-air interview as Robert Galbraith on BBC2’s radio. In the interview, which will be part of Simon Mayo’s Drivetime Show, Rowling will promote Career of Evil, the third Cormoran Strike novel Rowling has written using the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
The Guardian states that:
Rowling is expected to talk about why she decided to write as Galbraith, and her feelings once her identity as the author of the books was exposed.
Mayo will also read out five reviews from listeners who have applied to review Career of Evil as part of the Radio 2’s Book Club.
The Radio 2 interview will be Rowling’s second appearance as Robert Galbraith. During the first interview, an on-stage conversation with Val McDermid, Rowling showed up in a suit and tie. It remains unclear and is up for speculation how Rowling will mark her character on the radio.
The interview will appear on Simon Mayo’s Drivetime Show on November 2, 2015.
Or should it be “The New King of Crime?” J.K. Rowling has been appearing at events for her good friend Robert–specifically Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards. (Galbraith’s Silkworm was short listed for a Gold Dagger, though it was over thrown by Life or Death by Michael Robotham.) With a new Robert Galbraith book due out Tuesday (October 20), reviews for Career of Evil are making their way to the pages of newspapers.
The reviews have been more positive for this Strike novel than the previous, Silkworm. Some incline this may be the best one yet. Galbraith is starting to make a name for himself within the crime writing community, and a more than acceptable one at that.
But surely the pseudonymous Galbraith (J K Rowling) didn’t turn up for events [the Dagger Awards] like this? Indeed she was there, looking both elegant and slightly vulnerable, and adding a certain lustre to proceedings even if room was already full of celebrated crime writers.
In the event, I didn’t use the joke, but something remarkable happened that evening. The writer of two books featuring not a boy wizard but one-legged detective Cormoran Strike won over the crime writing community. It quickly became evident that Rowling had a genuine and unassuming desire to be a member of this new fraternity that she had recently joined. But – leaving aside Rowling’s personal virtues – just how good are the Cormoran Strike books?
This first crime novel, however, was soon recognised as a winner, with military policeman-turned-sleuth Strike finding the truth behind the apparent suicide of a supermodel. That book sported a vibrant use of the apparatus of the crime novel, despite the familiar trappings (bloody-minded detective traversing various class divisions, showing up a wrong-headed police force). The second Strike outing, The Silkworm, was diverting, but less inventive – and, for that matter, less plausible.
Now we have Strike number three, and, thankfully, it’s every bit as impressive as that first book. After a chilling opening in the company of a psychopathic killer, we move to the building site that is Tottenham Court Road and the office of Strike.
Written in an unadorned, non-literary prose, Career of Evil confirms that Rowling’s post-Potter initiative is proving to be a very welcome one. Both Strike and Ellacott are multi-dimensional characters (she is stuck in a dying relationship), and there is no gainsaying the sheer relish with which the writer tackles the genre.
The new writing identity that Rowling has forged for herself is not only utterly unlike that of her fantasy endeavours, but quirkily different from most of the already established confrères she is befriending in the crime writing world. Let’s hope the sardonic Cormoran Strike is here to stay.
The Telegraph gave the novel three stars (out of five), saying:
Ultimately, the crimes [of the first two novels] that drove the books were less memorable in themselves than as hooks by which to chart the awkward relationship between the one-legged Afghanistan vet turned private eye, Cormoran Strike, and Robin Ellacott, the comely wannabe detective.
Career of Evil, the third in the series, immediately announces itself as something different. The title and chapter headings are taken from the lyrics of the US rock band Blue Öyster Cult, a signal that the book intends to take us to dark places that Sayers and Allingham would not have touched with bargepoles. The plot encompasses paedophilia, serial murder and Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) – the mental disorder that makes sufferers want to amputate their healthy limbs.
Fans of the intrepid duo are in for some shocks about their pasts. We learn more about the death of Strike’s mother, for which his stepfather, an appalling failed rocker called Jeff Whittaker, was tried and acquitted. Whittaker, “an ostentatious lover of the perverse and the sadistic”, has got away with a career’s worth of misdeeds: “Strike knew how deeply ingrained was the belief that the evil conceal their dangerous predilections… When they wear them like bangles for all to see, the gullible populace laughs, calls it a pose or finds it strangely attractive.”
But it is the revelations about Robin that will shock readers more deeply, casting light on why she stays with her terrible fiancé Matthew, whose characterisation is proving increasingly unsubtle. (Would even this tedious accountant list “his estimates of the salary of all their contemporaries?”) Even after three books, the dance of Strike and Robin’s cautious non-courtship remains very entertaining.
But has Galbraith really succeeded in going to a darker place? The killer’s inner thoughts are a bit cheesy, and the novel slips too easily into the language of melodrama (“the means by which the murderer and his macabre schemes could be brought down”). It is as readable and exciting as ever, but Galbraith’s most “realistic” plot so far is, perversely, his least convincing.
Read more about the planning of Career of Evil and reactions at The Telegraph. The Leaky Cauldron will be reading the novel as soon as it hits shelves, and posting our review as soon as possible!
After a series of tweets (and retweets) this morning, Audible released two snippets of Robert Galbraith’s new mystery novel, Career of Evil. The first two chapters of the new Cormoran Strike novel can now be listened to, for free, on Audible’s twitter.
The first chapter of Career of Evil opens with the point of view of the antagonist of the story–the man who has a vendetta against strike, an unhealthy obsession with Robin, and a horrifying hobby of charming women and killing them among peach bath towels stained red with blood. He opens the book by stalking Robin and Matthew. We don’t know his name, but we do know that he has a particular loathing for rugby. Really, who is surprised that the sport makes an important appearance in J.K. Rowling’s very good friend’s novel? No one.
Chapter two takes a turn in point of view and settles on Robin and Matthew, the story being told by Robin of course. No big surprise, this not-so-happily engaged couple is in the middle of another argument on Matthew’s favorite subject: Cormoran Strike. Out of anger, Robin receives a package from an unknown carrier, and stops and signs for it without looking to see who is delivering it or who it is from. When she rips it open, it’s that woman’s severed leg we’ve been hearing so much about in the novel’s synopsis.
Hello, readers! Once again, we’ve brought out the Upcoming Titles feature. This month we’re focusing a bit on spooky reads as October is HALLOWEEN MONTH! (Or at least that’s what all the stores tell us.) As always, this is by no means a comprehensive list of forthcoming releases, just a compilation of titles we think our readers (and our contributors!) would enjoy.
Without further ado:
October 6th
Through the Dark (A Darkest Minds novella compilation) by Alexandra Bracken**
