#The Running Grave

[emzy-caskett]

Petition to have The Running Grave as 6 episodes please…!? 🙏🏻✍🏻🤞🏻

[montargnator]

Yessss Cormoran, GO FOR IT!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[rouyn]

Strike x Robin: "As water pours down from heaven, so fire flames up from the earth." - The I Ching or Book of Changes

gifset based on the epigraphs from The Running Grave, chapters 128-129, 131

[105nt]

... the fact that he would, quite soon, be free of Robin was an inextricable part of his enjoyment of her presence ...

... from the very first he had told himself: this far and no further ...

... she occupied a unique place in his thoughts and in his affections ...

... he’d called her into the inner office because he wanted her company as long as he could get it ...

Equally spaced Strike on Ellacott quotes.

[writingfanficsfan]

Book 2 of 2025

Summary:

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her. . .

Book 7 in the Cormoran Strike series is huge, 1117 pages in the Dutch version. But it doesn't feel as if the story is too long (which I did feel with book 6). This story, this case was so good but damn, it's also one of the most dark and depressing stories in the series. The time Robin spends in the 'church' is laced with suspence and dread. I swear my heart rate went up a couple of times when she was in a dangerous situation. I was so relieved when she was finally out of there!

And the epilogue! Strike has always been a brave man but damn, he takes brave to another level with the ending of this book. I am already impatiently waiting for the next book in the series (and Robin's reaction).

5/5 stars

[djuvlipen]

(TRG Spoiler)

The funniest moment of The Running Grave was when Strike said "you're in therapy?" and Lucy replied "well yeah, aren't you?" and Strike was like "No???"

[denmark-street]

JKR writing about a cult is everything I never knew I wanted

[thesefilespod]

🖤 BONUS OUTTAKE! 🖤

In celebration of the fabulous BBC adaptation of The Ink Black Heart being released, here's a short clip of us talking about the great interviews from show leads Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger.

We are so grateful to have them playing the parts of Strike and Robin and can't wait to see them in The Running Grave! 🖤

[fandomhype]

Is this a recap? A review? Just the mad ramblings of a crazy fangirl?! You decide!

This book was hard to talk about because it's so dark but I found the lols in there somehow :)

[joannerowling]

Listen i realise that Strike is a man of many flaws but he's also just like me for real

[hjellacott]

Finished "The Running Grave". It's absolutely superb, doubtless the best of the Strike series and one of Rowling's top three books ever. I just couldn't put it down, finished it in 35h (minus hours of sleep, food and other stuff). The case was so incredibly interesting, the way she sews all the stories, background, personal stuff, character evolution and case so perfectly done, best she's ever done. At last a book that's 100% case and 100% character growth and 100% personal storylines. Don't ask me how, you'll see it when you read it. And with an epilogue that made me laugh, cry and feel absolutely elated and healed. I loved every minute of it.

[balkanradfem]

I just realized Robert Galbraith's new book is coming out today! It's called 'The Running Grave', and I'm actually intimidated by that title, I'm not scared of graves but I would not like to encounter one that can run. All I know about it is that it's going to tackle cults and cult victims, I'm super excited to read her take on it.

I'll post updates as I acquire the book and start reading!

[105nt]

... Matt, honestly, if you saw him… he’s enormous and he’s got a face like some beaten-up boxer. He is not remotely attractive, I’m sure he’s over forty, and ... he’s got that sort of pubey hair ...

... she rolled over, pressing her flushed face into the pillow. What was she thinking? Damn Matthew, putting things in her head, judging her by himself ...

... she remembered how much pleasure it had given her to see him sitting in Notes Café, after a week’s absence, and how happy she was, no matter the circumstances, to see Strike’s name light up her phone ...

... Robin stirred, and groped in the darkness for his hand. Finding it, she squeezed. ‘I knew you were there,’ she murmured drowsily, half-asleep. ‘I knew you were there ...’

Equally spaced Ellacott on Strike quotes.

[beirarowling]

There is a scene in JK Rowling’s new detective novel in which members of a religious cult surround a new recruit, screaming abuse. They call her a selfish bitch, hurling misogynist slurs until she collapses in tears. It’s designed to break down defences, but what her tormentors don’t know is that their victim is an undercover private detective. Robin Ellacott has been hired to investigate the cult by the father of an autistic young man who hasn’t heard from his son for four years.

Ellacott is a partner in the detective agency founded by Cormoran Strike, a veteran who lost part of a leg in Afghanistan. The Strike novels, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, are bestsellers and often seem to mirror preoccupations in Rowling’s own life. The abuse scene in the latest novel is a reminder of the torrents of invective aimed at Rowling since she took a stand in support of women’s rights.

Yet this series reveals something else about Rowling, namely her extraordinary resilience. Three years ago, when she published her magnum opus Troubled Blood, she was wrongly accused of making the murderer transgender — and the menacing hashtag “RIP JK Rowling” began to trend on social media. She has faced vicious abuse, including graphic threats of death and sexual violence, and her address has been published on social media.

Some authors would have found it hard to bear, to the point of withdrawing from the public world for a while. While it is true that Rowling has the protections offered by wealth and status, it is striking that the attacks have not had a limiting effect on her imagination. On the contrary, they seem to have stimulated her creative powers, encouraging her to ask questions about contemporary phenomena such as the misogynist world of online gaming.

Misogyny has always existed, but Rowling understands its modern guises better than most — and the belief systems that allow it to flourish.

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith review — a strike against misogyny

[atorturedpoet1989]

Okay,, THAT ENDING though. I literally closed my book and put it down because I was so shook. I finished it five minutes ago, and I still haven’t processed it. I read that sentence and shock waves emitted from me probably lol.

Another strike and Ellacott masterpiece, as per. Written in stride as ever, and now I need 8 immmmediatelyyy.