MiscellanyI am still furious about Facebook’s heavy-handed cancellation of my account because I supposedly ran afoul of the platform’s so-called “community standards.” Facebook is simply afraid to allow freedom of speech.

If you’re a fan of detective fiction, Robert Galbraith (aka Jo Rowling) has a treat for you ‘The Ink Black Heart’

From the publisher

The latest installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Strike series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in another winding, wicked case.

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 cocreator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity.

Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this—and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

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 themselves embroiled in a case that stretches their powers of deduction to the limits

Strike uses tried-and-true investigative methods rather than hacking into databases with his computer.

Malcolm

Malcolm R. Campbell is the author of ‘Conjure Woman’s Cat’