There are certain immutable laws of detective fiction that I follow. In terms of pure enjoyment, I think Career of Evil would come out ahead of the rest, for rather mundane reasons: I didn’t have many interruptions and was able to bury myself in the book for long stretches, which is ideal. Most of the Harry Potter books are "whodunits at heart", she added, saying that she "loves detective fiction". At the beginning of Lethal White, we see a very big step forward, in that both of them admit to themselves what they’re feeling in a very overwrought and stressful setting. While in the army, Strike had the anonymity he craved; now that he has left, he runs into people who make a lot of assumptions about him based purely on his parentage. All rights reserved. You also see Strike and Robin journey to different parts of the country, following up clues from Scotland, to Cumbria and to as far south as you can go, to Cornwall. I wanted to have a go at writing a contemporary whodunit, with a credible back story. A Private Investigator is invited in to different worlds. ", The character of Strike's assistant, Robin, a temporary secretary, grew "largely out of my own experiences as a temp, long ago in London where I could always make rent between jobs because I could type 100 words a minute due to writing fiction in my spare time.". © 2020 Robert Galbraith. The prosaic answer is that London is big enough to give Strike a lot of cases without tripping over Rebus, who I think has made Edinburgh his own. Your detective should always lay out the information fairly for the reader, but he will always be ahead of the game. JK Rowling had earlier opened up about how she came up with the name Robert Galbraith in a Q&A on her original Robert Galbraith website. I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. Yes, I really wanted to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback. Robert's success during his first three months as a published writer (discounting sales made after I was found out) actually compares favourably with JK Rowling's success over the equivalent period of her career. ©2020 Verizon Media. How long JK Rowling wanted to keep her crime writer pseudonym a secret, we will never know. I was completely paranoid that people might take this as a clue and land at my real identity, but thankfully nobody was looking that deeply at the author’s name. Throughout the stories, you’ll find characters that you love, that you hate, that will make you laugh, that will make you cry – whether it be Strike, or Robin, or any of the recurring characters, to the wide range of intriguing personalities that we get to meet in each story. As to how she picked the particular name. It is a totally different thing from Harry Potter. Unwillingly, really, Strike is being broken by this friendship. Wed 24 Jul 2013 10.52 BST I think Robin is the most purely loveable character I’ve written. It gives me a way of using life experiences and exploring those worlds in depth. The Strike stories introduce you to London in its entirety; North, South, East and West. In fact, many started linking her pen name to psychiatrist Robert Galbraith Heath who experimented with gay conversion therapy, and claimed to have successfully converted a homosexual patient, labeled in his paper as Patient B-19. I have colour coded spreadsheets, so I can keep a track of where I am going. Sometimes I consider I have had a good day if I have deleted a lot of words or have simply done plenty of thinking. Is this correct? The plot does unfold with the investigation. She had revealed that it was partially inspired by Robert F Kennedy. Strike is entirely imaginary. She is in deliberate contrast to Strike. When I was a child, I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’, and I’ve no idea why. At the end of Career of Evil the reader is left wanting to know more about Strike and Robin’s relationship. Their relationship takes its biggest step forward so far. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. With four books now in the series, which have you enjoyed writing the most so far? It’s not, there are actually more than that. If you carry on using this site, we’ll assume that you’re fine with our use of cookies. Amid the FAQs on the official Robert Galbraith author website, Rowling declared "I successfully channelled my inner bloke!" Why did you decide for the “author” to have a military background? I chose Robert because it’s one of my favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the Potter series or The Casual Vacancy. How does Strike and Robin’s relationship change in this book? Why did you feel the need to make this such a long book? The decision to choose a male pseudonym was driven by a desire to "take my writing persona as far away as possible from me", Rowling said. I plan and research a lot and know far more about the characters than actually ends up ever appearing in the books. I’ve always loved detective fiction, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Margery Allingham and PD James, I love them all. What is your process of writing these novels and is it different to how you write your other work? Rowling's identity as the author of The Cuckoo's Calling was leaked last week by a friend of one of her lawyers. Lethal White again is different, though some of the work is procedural, I can’t tell you much more without giving too much away. I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. It’s well documented the level of detailed planning that went into those. Over the course of the books they start to open up to each other. Apart from being an ex-military policeman, my hero is the illegitimate son of a very famous man whom he has only met twice.

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