Cormoran Strike

Cormoran Strike
	The Cuckoo's Calling (2013); The Silkworm (2014); Career of Evil (2015); Lethal White (2018); Troubled Blood (2020); The Ink Black Heart (2022); The Running Grave (2023); The Hallmarked Man (2025); Sleep Tight, Evangeline (Forthcoming) ;
Author	J. K. Rowling (as Robert Galbraith)
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Crime fiction, mystery
Publisher	Sphere Books
Published	4 April 2013–present
Media type	Print (hardback and paperback); Audiobook; E-book;
No. of books	8

Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling under the pen name Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the cases of the fictional private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. Eight novels have so far been published in a planned series of ten. The eighth novel, titled The Hallmarked Man, was released on 2 September 2025. A ninth was announced on Rowling's X (formerly twitter) on February 13, 2026. As of February 2024, the series has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and was published in more than 50 countries, being translated into 43 languages.

The novels are adapted into the television programme Strike, which began airing on BBC One in the United Kingdom in August 2017.