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* GoodCopBadCop: When trying to get Grant Ledwell to cough up some important evidence, Strike says they'll need "a bit of good cop, bad cop." Robin says "How bad d'you want me to be?" In the exchange that follows, it is of course Strike who is the bad cop in the interrogation that follows.
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* [[spoiler: TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Two of the moderators of "Drek's Game," Anomie the belligerent misogynist gamemaster, and Paperwhite the superfan who's in love with Morehouse, are actually the same person.]]
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* [[spoiler: SurvivorsGuilt: Josh Blay suffers from this, blaming himself for not blocking Anomie on Twitter, not standing up for Edie against the fandom, and believing the gossip that she was Anomie, believing that he should be dead too. Strike, who "understood survivor's guilt," thinks about how he still dreams about Sgt. Gary Topley, the soldier who was killed by the same IED that took Strike's leg.
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Two of the moderators of "Drek's Game," Anomie the belligerent misogynist gamemaster, and Paperwhite the superfan who's in love with Morehouse, are actually the same person.]]
* TwoAliasesOneCharacter: [[spoiler: Two of the moderators of "Drek's Game," Anomie the belligerent misogynist gamemaster, and Paperwhite the superfan who's in love with Morehouse, are actually the same person.]]
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* MaleFrontalNudity: Preston Pierce poses nude for the art class at the North Grove commune that Robin joins. Robin can't stop herself from staring at his penis.
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* RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun: In the opening, Robin and Strike discuss events from the very first novel, ''Literature/TheCuckoosCalling''. She tells him that she could tell immediately that he was good at what he did, just from watching him, despite his poverty and the shabby state of his office. Meanwhile, he recalls how she brought in a tray of coffee and biscuits on her first day and he couldn't figure out how she got it all, that it was like a conjuring trick.
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* [[spoiler: TwoAliasesOneCharacter: Two of the moderators of "Drek's Game," Anomie the belligerent misogynist gamemaster, and Paperwhite the superfan who's in love with Morehouse, are actually the same person.]]
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** A very subtle example with the chat logs, and specifically the way they are presented on the page, in separate columns with time stamps. At no point do comments by Paperwhite and Anomie appear on the same line. Also, "Paperwhite" blatantly violates the rule that nobody's online handle can be just the name of a cartoon character; apparently Anomie has exempted himself.
** A more overt example with Anomie the pseudo-intellectual's habit of using the Latin motto "oderint dum metuant"--"let them hate so long as they fear." One of the other moderators of "Drek's Game" notes that Anomie misspelled the motto. That's because it wasn't Anomie, it was Yasmin aka "Hartella" who was impersonating Anomie in the chat.
** A more overt example with Anomie the pseudo-intellectual's habit of using the Latin motto "oderint dum metuant"--"let them hate so long as they fear." One of the other moderators of "Drek's Game" notes that Anomie misspelled the motto. That's because it wasn't Anomie, it was Yasmin aka "Hartella" who was impersonating Anomie in the chat.
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** [[spoiler: A very subtle example with the chat logs, and specifically the way they are presented on the page, in separate columns with time stamps. At no point do comments by Paperwhite and Anomie appear on the same line. Also, "Paperwhite" blatantly violates the rule that nobody's online handle can be just the name of a cartoon character; apparently Anomie has exempted himself. \n]]
** A more overt example with Anomie the pseudo-intellectual's habit of using the Latin motto "oderint dum metuant"--"let them hate so long as they fear." One of the other moderators of "Drek's Game" notes that Anomie misspelled the motto. [[spoiler: That's because it wasn't Anomie, it was Yasmin aka "Hartella" who was impersonating Anomie in the chat.]]
** A more overt example with Anomie the pseudo-intellectual's habit of using the Latin motto "oderint dum metuant"--"let them hate so long as they fear." One of the other moderators of "Drek's Game" notes that Anomie misspelled the motto. [[spoiler: That's because it wasn't Anomie, it was Yasmin aka "Hartella" who was impersonating Anomie in the chat.]]
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* {{Catfishing}}: Morehouse, the co-creator of "Drek's Game", falls in love over the internet with Paperwhite, another moderator. One of the twists near the end reveals that not only is Paperwhite not a woman, she is a sock puppet of Anomie, who created the game along with Morehouse. Anomie found a sexy photo of an attractive woman and sent it to Morehouse, claiming it to be a picture of "her".
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* {{Catfishing}}: Morehouse, the co-creator of "Drek's Game", falls in love over the internet with Paperwhite, another moderator. [[spoiler: One of the twists near the end reveals that not only is Paperwhite not a woman, she is a sock puppet of Anomie, who created the game along with Morehouse. Anomie found a sexy photo of an attractive woman and sent it to Morehouse, claiming it to be a picture of "her".]]
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* NeverOneMurder: This trope is used in the Strike series for the first time since the first book. Strike and Robin, hoping to discover Anomie's identity, track down Vikas Bhardwaj, who is better known in ''Ink Black Heart'' fandom as "Morehouse", one of the creators of "Drek's Game". They find him dead, with his throat cut.
** There were multiple murders in Literature/CareerOfEvil
* NewYearHasCome: Cormoran meets Madeline at a New Year's party, and kisses her as they count down the last ten seconds of 2014. She becomes his GirlOfTheWeek.
** There were multiple murders in Literature/CareerOfEvil
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* NeverOneMurder: This trope is used in the Strike series for the first time since the first book. Strike and Robin, hoping to discover Anomie's identity, track down Vikas Bhardwaj, who is better known in ''Ink Black Heart'' fandom as "Morehouse", one of the creators of "Drek's Game". They find him dead, with his throat cut.
** There were multiple murders in Literature/CareerOfEvil
* NewYearHasCome: Cormoran meets Madeline at a New Year's party, party and kisses her as they count down the last ten seconds of 2014. She becomes his GirlOfTheWeek.
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* HeadTurningBeauty: Despite being married, subcontractors Shah and Barclay both comment that they have no objection to watch Chloe Cardew (the voluptuous sister of a prominent suspect) every day on their surveillance gigs and would happily do so on their own time.
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Robin does this to herself after finding out about Cormoran's new girlfriend, and what her reaction means. She finally admits to herself what she's spent at least three books trying to deny.
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* LoveEpiphany: ''Both'' of the main characters have them. Robin has hers after finding out about Cormoran's new girlfriend, and what her reaction means. She finally admits to herself what she's spent at least three books trying to deny: ''I'm in love with him''. Cormoran has his on the last page of the novel, in the same way, after finding out that Robin is going out on a date with Ryan the Met detective.
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* HappyEndingOverride: ''Troubled Blood'' ended with Strike taking Robin to the Ritz to celebrate her 30th birthday and with a heavy implication that the two were headed directly for a RelationshipUpgrade. The first chapter of this book depicts [[ImmediateSequel the ending of that dinner]]: Strike makes his move, Robin hesitates, and the whole relationship is back to square one.
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* CovertDistressCode: When Edie Ledwell visits the Strike detective agency to try to get them to help her with Anomie's trolling her online, Pat calls Robin in the partners' office, telling her "Message from Mr Strike. Would you be free to visit Gateshead this Saturday?" As is then explained, in the wake of the agency's successful resolution of a cold case and the ensuing press coverage, they've had two would-be clients of pronounced eccentricity off the street, one wanting them to prove that the government was watching her through her air vent and another wanting them to investigate a neighbor he was convinced was part of an [=ISIS=] terrorist cell. After this, they agreed upon "which meant, in essence, 'I've got a nutter here.'"
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* CovertDistressCode: When Edie Ledwell visits the Strike detective agency to try to get them to help her with Anomie's trolling her online, Pat calls Robin in the partners' office, telling her "Message from Mr Strike. Would you be free to visit Gateshead this Saturday?" As is then explained, in the wake of the agency's successful resolution of a cold case and the ensuing press coverage, they've had two would-be clients of pronounced eccentricity off the street, one wanting them to prove that the government was watching her through her air vent and another wanting them to investigate a neighbor he was convinced was part of an [=ISIS=] terrorist cell. After this, they agreed upon a code "which meant, in essence, 'I've got a nutter here.'"
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* CovertDistressCode: When Edie Ledwell visits the Strike detective agency to try to get them to help her with Anomie's trolling her online, Pat calls Robin in the partners' office, telling her "Message from Mr Strike. Would you be free to visit Gateshead this Saturday?" As is then explained, in the wake of the agency's successful resolution of a cold case and the ensuing press coverage, they've had two would-be clients of pronounced eccentricity off the street, one wanting them to prove that the government was watching her through her air vent and another wanting them to investigate a neighbor he was convinced was part of an [=ISIS=] terrorist cell. After this, they agreed upon "which meant, in essence, 'I've got a nutter here.'"
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* PeekABangs: Yasmin Weatherhead, a dimwitted fan of ''The Ink Black Heart'' who is writing a book about the cartoon, has hair which "fell in Creator/VeronicaLake style over one eye, partly obscuring the pale, flat face."
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Robin goes undercover, taking a class at the art commune. A guy named Preston poses for a nude study and Robin can't stop herself from looking at and thinking about his penis, "which was quite a bit larger than her ex-husband's." It's actually a sign of Robin, who has a complicated sexual history--raped in college, and only one sexual partner for her entire life, that being her ex-husband--having gotten to a place where she's ready to pursue romantic relationships again.
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* BuxomIsBetter: Despite himself, Cormoran can't avoid sometimes noticing Robin's generous bust, like when she leans over during dinner at the Ritz and he notices her "deep cavern of cleavage."
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* AscendedFanboy: A man dressed as ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' at a [=ComicCon=] ends up helping Robin save a suspect from being run over by a train.
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* BadassBystander: In the climax, two unnamed neighbors of [[spoiler:the Upcotts]] respond to the noises of the struggle during [[spoiler:Gus Upcott]]'s VillainousBreakdown rampage and help Robin overpower the villain.
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** Madeline is on good terms with the father of her son, whom she never married. Her ex-husband, on the other hand, she is less nostalgic about.
** The girl whose picture was used to create the [[spoiler:phony Paperwhite identity]] insists that her ex-boyfriend (whom she sent the photo to) wouldn't have done anything unsavory with the picture and is reluctant to give Strike information about her ex. Strike concedes that the two do look very calm and friendly in pictures showing them together after their breakup.
** Madeline is on good terms with the father of her son, whom she never married. Her ex-husband, on the other hand, she is less nostalgic about.
** The girl whose picture was used to create the [[spoiler:phony Paperwhite identity]] insists that her ex-boyfriend (whom she sent the photo to) wouldn't have done anything unsavory with the picture and is reluctant to give Strike information about her ex. Strike concedes that the two do look very calm and friendly in pictures showing them together after their breakup.
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* AssholeVictim: While Edie and [[spoiler:Morehouse]] are portrayed fairly sympathetically before and after their murders, the same can't be said of [[spoiler:Inigo]], the final victim. [[spoiler:He is a self-absorbed bully who makes his wife and children miserable, cheats on his wife, and is hostile and unhelpful to the detectives.]] Strike himself seems to think this. In the final scene, he laments about how [[spoiler:Morehouse]] might still be alive if ForWantOfANail hadn’t kept the killer from being exposed earlier, but he doesn't say the same thing about [[spoiler:Inigo]].
* AxeBeforeEntering: The climax finds Robin hiding in a bathroom as a crazedGus [[spoiler:Gus Upcott]] starts chopping away at the door with a machete, then sticking his face in the hole and screaming that he's going to rape and murder her.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Jago's oldest daughter from his first marriage, Christabel, is TheGhost, but is repeatedly described as standing up to Jago when he abuses her sisters (only to get hit herself) and seeking online information to help her family get out from under Jago's thumb online.
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* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Strike observes that hidden microphones that Anomie planted to spy on [[spoiler:conversations in his mother's house]] also recorded copious evidence that will help convict Anomie of [[spoiler:killing his father and trying to kill his mother, sister, and Robin, all of whom he attacked in that house while ranting sadistically.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Edie's uncle Grant is quick to insult other people for being unsavorily interested in the profits of her cartoon, but he is profiting off of the project himself solely because Edie (who he rarely reached out to after her mother's death) died without a will. Strike describes Grant's characterization of Blay as a "money-grubber" as "the worst bit of projection I've seen in a while."
* {{Hypocrite}}: Edie's uncle Grant is quick to insult other people for being unsavorily interested in the profits of her cartoon, but he is profiting off of the project himself solely because Edie (who he rarely reached out to after her mother's death) died without a will. Strike describes Grant's characterization of Blay as a "money-grubber" as "the worst bit of projection I've seen in a while."
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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Racist [=youtuber=] Wally Cardew's one BigotryException friendship comes to an end after he finds out that his Middle-Eastern friend is in a relationship with his sister, leading to a fight between the two of them.
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* ShowWithinAShow: ''The Ink Black Heart'' is an animated television series within the novel that starts out on Website/YouTube and later gets popular enough to go to Creator/{{Netflix}} and have a movie. ''Drek's Game'' is a fan-made game based on it.
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* ShowWithinAShow: ''The Ink Black Heart'' is an animated television series within the novel that starts out on Website/YouTube and later gets popular enough to go to Creator/{{Netflix}} and have get a movie. ''Drek's Game'' is a fan-made game based on it.the cartoon.
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* NeverOneMurder: This trope is used in the Strike series for the first time since the first book. Strike and Robin, hoping to discover Anomie's identity, track down Vikas Bhardwaj, who is better known in ''Ink Black Heart'' fandom as "Morehouse", one of the creator's of "Drek's Game". They find him dead, with his throat cut.
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* NeverOneMurder: This trope is used in the Strike series for the first time since the first book. Strike and Robin, hoping to discover Anomie's identity, track down Vikas Bhardwaj, who is better known in ''Ink Black Heart'' fandom as "Morehouse", one of the creator's creators of "Drek's Game". They find him dead, with his throat cut.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Nutley, a subcontractor Strike is forced to bring on when the team is short staffed, is incompetent, just shy of being TheLoad. He barely helps out during the investigation, expects praise for basic observations, and makes it clear he thinks he's just as good, if not better, as Strike or Robin. After the bomb goes off, he immediately quits and come crawling back once the case is solved and the danger is over.
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* YouGotMurder: A bomb is sent to the agency via mail. After opening it, Pat just barely manages to realise what it is and get out of the room before it goes off. Luckily, no one was hurt, though the office is out of commission for the latter part of the book.
