About the book:
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough – who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.
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.
Troubled Blood is the fifth volume in Rowling’s Cormoran Strike books, a series of noir-inflected murder mysteries. The name of the series comes from their protagonist, a grizzled army police officer-turned-private detective named Cormoran Strike, who solves crimes with his partner/obvious eventual love interest, Robin.
About the author:
J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith doesn’t need any introduction. If you’re a Potterhead you’re just grateful as her writing has been an integral part of you growing up. However, that’s not the case with LGBTQ activists.
So, what’s the controversy about?
The book features a serial killer who lures his victims into a false sense of security by dressing as a woman. According to a review in Telegraph, one of the novel’s murder suspects, Dennis Creed, a “transvestite serial killer”, asked, “what critics of Rowling’s stance on trans issues will make of a book whose moral seems to be: never trust a man in a dress.”
This led to a Twitter trend #RIPJKRowling and urged users to burn her novel. A bookshop in Australia and several other bookshops across the world stated that they will discontinue selling her novels.
JK Rowling has defended herself stating that the character in the book has been inspired by real-life characters.
