Description: "When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomic. A few days later, Robin reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heaert. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie's true identity - but with a complex web of online aliases, business interests, and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find their powers of deduction stretched to new limits and their lives at risk in new and horrifying ways " -- Back cover.
Review Quotes: "The sixth and most complex novel yet in a unique series. . . The author does a masterly job of keeping all plot elements in play and in balance, and the complications only add to the satisfaction of the mystery's eventual solution."--Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal