History Literature / CormoranStrikeNovels

* IHaveManyNames: Among the nicknames that Strike gets from friends, family, and lovers are Oggy, Diddy, Mystic Bob, Bluey, Bunsen, and Stick.

* IHaveManyNames: Among the nicknames that Strike gets from friends, family, and lovers are Oggy, Diddy, Mystic Bob, Bluey, and Stick.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle:
** ''The Cuckoo's Calling'' is a reference to a line from the poem "A Dirge" by [[Literature/GoblinMarket Christina Rossetti]].
** Internalized in ''The Silkworm'', which is the English translation of ''Bombyx Mori'', Owen Quine's magnum opus [[ShowWithinAShow in the novel]].
** ''Career of Evil'' [[TitledAfterTheSong is the name of a song by]] Music/BlueOysterCult.

* SwitchingPOV: All the books continually switch off POV between Strike and Robin. ''Career of Evil'' mixes this up by also including some chapters from the POV of a serial killer, and also throwing in some POV from Matthew for one scene in which he makes a fateful choice.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Cormoran and Robin. Robin cannot stop herself from being jealous when Strike gets a girlfriend in ''Career of Evil'', and she comes within an inch of running away with him at the beginning of ''Lethal White''. Strike for his part cannot stop himself from noticing how curvy and hot Robin is, starting with the first book when he gets her a clingy green dress

There are five books in the series:

* YouKnowTheOne: While Lula Landry and Owen Quine are referenced by name after their respective books, their murderers, [[spoiler:John Bristow]] and [[spoiler:Elizabeth Tassel]] are only mentioned indirectly.

* RealityEnsues[=/=]TechnologyMarchesOn: Certain elements of the CrimeFiction formula are updated to accommodate for things like the existence of the Internet.

The '''''Cormoran Strike Novels''''' are a series of CrimeFiction books written by Creator/JKRowling under the MustacheDePlume Robert Galbraith (though this time [[DoingItForTheArt by]] [[SameFaceDifferentName choice]] rather than ExecutiveMeddling).

* TheGhost: Five books in and Al is the only Rokeby to actually appear so far, although they’re all referenced fairly often. Cormoran talks to his dad on the phone in and texts with one of his sisters that he’s never met, Prudence, in ''Troubled Blood'' but neither has actually appeared just yet.

The novels focus on [[{{Deuteragonist}} two main characters]]. [[AwesomeMcCoolname Cormoran Strike]], a [[ShellshockedVeteran British veteran]] of the [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror war in Afghanistan]] turned HardboiledDetective with [[AnArmAndALeg a missing leg]], [[PerpetualPoverty a massive debt]], [[YourCheatingHeart a messy break-up]], and no clients; and [[NaiveNewcomer Robin Ellacott]], a young just-engaged woman whose temping agency has accidentally given Robin her dream job of working for a private eye — Cormoran. Robin quickly becomes his HypercompetentSidekick, and together, [[TheyFightCrime They Solve Crime]].

** Not applicable for ''Troubled Blood'', since Strike is investigating a cold case.

* {{Epigraph}}: Each book has one epigraph per chapter, with sources themed after the plot. ''The Silkworm'' quotes Elizabethan-era plays, while ''Career of Evil'' quotes lyrics from Music/BlueOysterCult songs and ''Lethal White'' quotes the Creator/HenrikIbsen play ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosmersholm Rosmersholm]]''.

The first three books in the series were adapted into a Creator/{{BBC}} miniseries called ''Series/{{Strike|2017}}''; an adaptation of ''Lethal White'' is screening in late August/early September 2020.

* BadassNormal: Strike may be a {{Muggle}}, but that doesn't stop him from being a badass.

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The first two books are set in 2010, the third in 2011, the fourth in 2012.

* ''Literature/TroubledBlood'' (September 15, 2020)

* AmbiguousSituation: The reason Cormoran and his father Jonny don’t have a relationship isn’t quite clear (or at least yet). Cormoran portrays him as a deadbeat dad who doesn’t care about him which would imply the onus of the estrangement is on Jonny. However, his half-brother Al implies that Jonny is proud of him and would like to be a part of his life, which would imply it’s on Cormoran. There’s also the possibility that like most familial estrangements, the truth is somewhere in the middle and both have blame to be laid at their feet.

** Cormoran is the name of a giant in Cornish folklore, and Cormoran Strike [[GeniusBruiser is not a small man.]] The name is also one letter off from "cormorant," a kind of seabird; given Robin's avian name, it's appropriate that he'd have one too.

* ''Troubled Blood'' (September 15, 2020)

* ''Troubled Blood'' (September 29, 2020)

The first three books in the series were adapted into a Creator/{{BBC}} miniseries called ''Series/{{Strike|2017}}''; an adaptation of ''Lethal White'' is in the works.

The novels focus on [[{{Deuteragonist}} two main characters]]. [[AwesomeMcCoolname Cormoran Strike]], a [[ShellshockedVeteran British veteran]] of the [[Main/TheWarOnTerror war in Afghanistan]] turned HardboiledDetective with [[AnArmAndALeg a missing leg]], [[PerpetualPoverty a massive debt]], [[YourCheatingHeart a messy break-up]], and no clients; and [[NaiveNewcomer Robin Ellacott]], a young just-engaged woman whose temping agency has accidentally given Robin her dream job of working for a private eye — Cormoran. Robin quickly becomes his HypercompetentSidekick, and together, [[TheyFightCrime They Solve Crime]].

The first three books in the series were adapted into a Creator/{{BBC}} miniseries called ''Series/{{Strike|2017}}''; an adaptation of ''Lethal White'' is in the work.

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Cormoran and Robin. Seeing as how we first meet Robin after she'd just been engaged to Matthew [[spoiler:and she is properly (if unhappily) married to him by the end of the third book]], it's possible it will [[PlatonicLifePartners stay that way]]. [[spoiler:That is, until the fourth book, when Robin discovers that Matthew has been cheating on her and promptly leaves him.]]