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. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s
true identity. 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 – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . .
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