Robert Glenister

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible, and as more horrendous acts occur, time starts running out for the two of them... Book 3 of the series.

When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. Her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. A gripping novel by JK Rowling, written under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Book 1 of series.

Rob and Jamie, both top climbers, grew up together but became estranged as they got older. When Jamie dies on a seemingly easy climb in Wales, Rob is grief-stricken, but discovers that their past hides clues to the tragedy.

The New Cut Gang is a group of urchins ranging from six-year-old Sharky Bob to 13-year-old Bridie Malone. They inhabit the streets around Lambeth Walk and the New Cut, in 1892. In this second adventure, £10,000 worth of silver is stolen from the Gas-Fitters' Hall and the New Cut Gang are immediately on the case. They enlist the help of Orlando, the strongest man in the world, and the Gas-Fitters' Ball provides them with the perfect opportunity to expose the villain.

In the city of Rome a power struggle is about to begin which will shake the foundations of the Republic. An ambitious young man, Julius Caesar, will face his first great test.  Book 1 of series.

A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber - but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend - the father of her newborn baby - who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.

The more Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott delve into the case, the more labyrinthine it gets. The silver shop is no ordinary one: it's located beside Freemasons' Hall and specialises in Masonic silverware. And in addition to the armed robber and Decima's boyfriend, it becomes clear that there are other missing men who could fit the profile of the body in the vault.

Book 8 in the Cormoran Strike series.

I was a Rat! Roger insists, and insists . . . In fact, when Bob the cobbler and his washerwoman wife, Joan, find the young boy abandoned on their doorstep, these are the only words he says. And he does have ratty behaviour, it's true.

Staying with Bob and Joan, however, Roger learns quickly to behave more like a human child. They try to find his parents, but the orphanage, police and hospital all have nothing on their records about a lost boy in the city. What is the truth? As more and more people find out about Roger the mysterious rat-boy he faces more and more danger. But sometimes help comes from the most unexpected of places . . .

When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie.

Robin decides that the agency can't help with this - and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

Robin and her business partner Cormoran Strike become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits…  Book 6 of series.

Depicting one man's transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man is a riveting exploration of science's power to corrupt.

With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - Is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of his old friend Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuses to help, Griffin resolves to wreak his revenge.

In the late 1970s an extraordinary document came to light; a continuous narrative by Dr Watson following the investigation of three women murdered by Jack the Ripper. As each trace of the ghastly outrage is recorded the murderer’s identity comes into focus.

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. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott, set off on a twisting trail that leads into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. Book 4 of series.

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.

The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.

In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito amongst them. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her...  Book 7 of series

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. She thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before. But when Quine is found brutally murdered, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . . Book 2 of series.

Lambeth, South London, 1894. Meet the New Cut Gang - Sharky Bob, Benny, Thunderbolt, Bridie and the Peretti twins: the greatest detectives since Sexton Blake. They inhabit the streets around Lambeth Walk and the New Cut, in 1894, a place bristling with gangsters, bookies, pickpockets, horse thieves and the occasional policeman. But who's passing counterfeit coins 'round Lambeth? Surely not Thunderbolt's dad, who's just been arrested....

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is approached by a woman asking for help in finding her mother - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on. As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly....  Book 5 of series.