Genre: Book
Grade: B+
Notable People: Robert Galbraith
Title: The Running Grave
Review: Number six in the wildly popular Cormoran Strike mystery series by noted Harry Potter author, JK Rowland, writing under the Galbreath pseudonym (what is that about, anyway?). This is her/his/their long awaited (by fanatics) book surrounding the mystery of cults-and it’s a whopper of a cult- dating back to 40 years and including murder, fields of dead bodies, pedophilia, child slavery, brainwashing and extreme punishment/deprivation-all in the guise of a gigantic humanitarian church with a brilliantly charismatic founder. Strike and his partner Robin (like Batman) are a brilliantly conceived pair with never ending sexual tension, reminiscent of Willis and Sheppard in Moonlighting. Galbraith/Rowland is a magnificent writer and the books are charming and inviting-but the length, oy, the length. This one became almost tedious at almost 1000 pages. So if you don’t mind a very long winter read and power lifting if you read in ol’ fashioned book form, it is well worth it.