When they finally make their grand reveal, everything falls into place with an almost audible click. She excels at tossing extraneous details and bits of plot detritus at her reader and making it feel almost possible to organize them all into a coherent solution, and the result is maddeningly entertaining: It feels as though you should have everything you need to know exactly whodunnit and why, but you can never quite put the pieces together the way that Strike and Robin can. The mystery format is where Rowling is technically at her most virtuosic and thematically at her weakest. Rowling is great at building mysteries and not very interesting at talking about politics The result is the only love story Rowling’s ever written that’s capable of bearing the weight of a plot on its back, and in some ways the most romantic book she’s written yet. The long delay between the start of the case and the classic bloody murder is unusual for a Cormoran Strike novel, and Lethal White’s long stretch of time spent with Strike and Robin in comparatively low-stakes circumstances allows Rowling to deepen and shade their relationship in ways she’s never quite had time to before. They’ve now been hired to investigate a case of blackmail, one that only takes on the familiar shape of a Robert Galbraith murder mystery about halfway through the novel. Vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark vox-mark
Lethal White picks up right where Career of Evil left off, with a shaken Robin going through with her wedding and regretting it almost at once, then returning to work with Strike.
The last book, Career of Evil, saw Strike firing Robin after she put herself in danger and jeopardized a case, only to regret his decision almost at once and show up at her wedding to Matthew, where he begged her to return to his detective agency. The banter-laden tension between the two provides the through-line that propels the Galbraith mysteries along their way. Strike and Robin are kindred spirits in crime-fighting and mystery-solving, but they’re forever kept apart - Robin by her engagement to the weak and feckless Matthew, and Strike by his belief that he is too broken for a committed relationship. These books are loosely standalone: The mystery in each one is self-contained, but the character relationships evolve over time, most chiefly the fraught and yearning partnership between detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant-turned-equal Robin. Lethal White is the fourth volume in Rowling’s Robert Galbraith series, with at least seven books planned. It’s not a perfect book, but it is deeply fun. It’s the kind of book you can get lost in for days, that you want to swallow down in one long satisfying gulp. Rowling publishes under the pen name Robert Galbraith, is addictively immersive.
Lethal White, the latest of the detective novels J.K.
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