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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [spoiler: No one suspected Lula was killed and all accepted the police's findings of a suicide. Had John never hired Strike, he would have gotten away with murder and probably would have gotten off scot-free for killing Rochelle too]].
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [spoiler: [[spoiler: No one suspected Lula was killed and all accepted the police's findings of a suicide. Had John never hired Strike, he would have gotten away with murder and probably would have gotten off scot-free for killing Rochelle too]].
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** Since Cormoran is an uncommon name, several people assume Strike's first name is actually Cameron. This becomes a RunningGag throughout the series.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [spoiler: No one suspected Lula was killed and all accepted the police's findings of a suicide. Had John never hired Strike, he would have gotten away with murder and probably would have gotten off scot-free for killing Rochelle too]].
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** The personalised hoodies which Guy gifts Deeby Macc, as one of them winds up being the a vital piece of evidence that ties the killer to the crime scene.
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** The personalised hoodies which Guy gifts Deeby Macc, as one of them winds up being the a vital piece of evidence that ties the killer to the crime scene.
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* LovableAlphaBitch: Lula may have let fame go to her head, but witnesses tend to remember her as kinder than your typical troubled starlet. The same is true of Ciara.
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* LovableAlphaBitch: Lula may have let fame go to her head, but witnesses tend to remember her as kinder than your typical troubled starlet. The same is true of Ciara.her best friend, Ciara Porter.
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* NotTheFirstVictim: Strike knows the Bristow family because, when he was a boy, he was friends with John's brother Charlie Bristow. He eventually figures out that John killed Charlie, in much the same way that he'd kill his other adopted sibling Lula many years later.
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* NotTheFirstVictim: Strike knows the Bristow family because, when he was a boy, he was friends with John's brother Charlie Bristow. He eventually figures out that John [[spoiler:John killed Charlie, in much the same way that he'd kill his other adopted sibling Lula many years later.later]].
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* SitComArchNemesis: Duffield and Guy get in a lot of (seriously meant) insults about each other.
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* SitComArchNemesis: SitcomArchNemesis: Duffield and Guy get in a lot of (seriously meant) insults about each other.
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%%* ShellShockedVeteran: Cormoran to a mild degree.
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The second Cormoran Strike novel, called ''Literature/TheSilkworm'', was released in 2014, again under the name Robert Galbraith, and [[http://www.mugglenet.com/2015/04/title-revealed-for-third-robert-galbraith-book/ the third novel]], ''Literature/CareerOfEvil'' (yes, named after [[Music/BlueOysterCult the song]]) in 2015. Literature/LethalWhite followed in 2018 and Literature/TroubledBlood in 2020.
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* SweaterGirl: In the first chapter, Robin is described as "curvaceous"; in the third chapter, Strike notices that she is wearing "a snugly, even seductively fitting cream sweater."
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* SweaterGirl: SexySweaterGirl: In the first chapter, Robin is described as "curvaceous"; in the third chapter, Strike notices that she is wearing "a snugly, even seductively fitting cream sweater."
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* AmbiguousDisorder: It becomes clear towards the end of the novel that [[spoiler:John Bristow]] is not exactly right in the head. Cormoran offers a few suggestions as to what is wrong with him during TheSummation, but [[GenreSavvy recognizes that]] [[NotThatKindOfDoctor after all, he's a military man turned private detective, and not a psychologist, and feels that the police will do a better job diagnosing him]].
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* AnyoneCanDie: It's J. K. Rowling, people. [[spoiler:Amazingly, she shows surprising restraint by killing off only one major character, [[TheConfidant Rochelle Onifade]], obviously excluding Lula's PlotTriggeringDeath.]]
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* DefectiveDetective: Strike is a war-wounded amputee with a tempestuous on-and-off relationship, death threats from a former client, and debt up to his eyeballs. Although what sets him apart is that he is surprisingly free of internal strife and self-destructive personality demons. All of his problems are external, not internal.
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* DefectiveDetective: Strike is a war-wounded amputee with a tempestuous on-and-off relationship, death threats from a former client, and debt up to his eyeballs. Although what sets him apart is that [[{{Downplayed}} he is surprisingly free of internal strife and self-destructive personality demons.demons]]. All of his problems are external, not internal. He [[FreudianExcuseDenial specifically rejects the idea]] that his mother's untimely death, which he remains convinced was a murder, was his motivation for becoming a detective, as he was fascinated by detective work for years before her death occurred.
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* FreudianExcuseDenial: Cormoran has always maintained that his mother, believed to have died of a drug overdose, was murdered by her boyfriend at the time, and his sister Lucy believes that Cormoran's entire career as a private detective has been a way of coping with this belief. In fact, he was obsessed with detective work long before their mother's death.
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** Makeup artist Bryony Radford mentions that she has dyslexia, which caused her to dial the wrong number in Ursula's phone contacts and find out that she was cheating on her husband. [[spoiler: She saw the will that Lula wrote out to her half-brother Jonah, but read the name as that of her adoptive brother John.]]
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** Anyone who describes Rochelle as a GoldDigger in her friendship with Lula isn't really wrong, as [[spoiler:she knew Lula was murdered (though she guessed wrong as to the actual killer) and was willing to hide her knowledge in order to blackmail John Bristow by threatening to disclose her knowledge of Lula's will. However, her treatment is nonetheless sympathetic as Lula was using her in turn, having cultivated a friendship with her as a pretext for buying her a phone which she could then use, and hurt her in their last interaction by catching up with her just to use the phone and then ditching her immediately.]]
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** Anyone who describes Rochelle as a GoldDigger in her friendship with Lula isn't really wrong, as [[spoiler:she knew Lula was murdered (though she guessed wrong as to the actual killer) and was willing to hide her knowledge in order to blackmail John Bristow by threatening to disclose her knowledge of Lula's will. However, her treatment is nonetheless sympathetic as Lula was using her in turn, having cultivated a friendship with her as a pretext for buying her a phone which she could then use, use herself, and hurt her in their last interaction by catching up with her just to use the phone and then ditching her immediately.]]
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** Anyone who describes Rochelle as a GoldDigger in her friendship with Lula isn't really wrong, as [[spoiler:she knew Lula was murdered (though she guessed wrong as to the actual killer) and is willing to hide her knowledge in order to blackmail John Bristow by threatening to disclose her knowledge of Lula's will. However, her treatment is nonetheless sympathetic as Lula was using her in turn, having cultivated a friendship with her as a pretext for buying her a phone which she could then use, and hurt her in their last interaction by catching up with her just to use the phone and then ditching her immediately.]]
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** Anyone who describes Rochelle as a GoldDigger in her friendship with Lula isn't really wrong, as [[spoiler:she knew Lula was murdered (though she guessed wrong as to the actual killer) and is was willing to hide her knowledge in order to blackmail John Bristow by threatening to disclose her knowledge of Lula's will. However, her treatment is nonetheless sympathetic as Lula was using her in turn, having cultivated a friendship with her as a pretext for buying her a phone which she could then use, and hurt her in their last interaction by catching up with her just to use the phone and then ditching her immediately.]]
