Review: Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith

Title: Career of Evil
Author: Robert Galbraith / J.K. Rowling
Published: October 22nd 2015
Date Read: January 16th - 27th 2016
Read In: English

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.

Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.

With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them...

A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. You will not be able to put this book down.



I'm sure many of us wouldn't have read any books by Robert Galbraith, if it wasn't public it's J.K. Rowling writing those books. I might have one day, since i'm kinda into thrillers.

I've read The Cuckoo's Calling and The Silkworm before, so it was a sure thing i would read Career of Evil too. I've like the other two books and i liked this one. It's not bloody or gory, since most of the book you follow Strike or Robin. I know lots of people think it's a lot of blah blah and the story doesn't do much for its ending, but believe me, it would be more uninteresting if there was no story at all, just murder and its end. I think the problem of those people who don't like Robert Galbraith's books is, that they're fans of Harry Potter and haven't read any other thrillers before and simply don't like it.

J.K. Rowling always manages it to reveal nothing about the murderer, at least not for me. I didn't know who did it until the very end. Strike always knows a lot earlier than the reader, but Rowling just doesn't share.