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L'uomo marchiato
I clienti eccentrici non sono una novità per Cormoran Strike. Ma la donna che lo accoglie nella sua fatiscente e isolata casa nel Kent, Decima Mullins, sembra un po' più che eccentrica. Visibilmente agitata, vuole che Strike indaghi sul cadavere dell'uomo che mesi prima è stato trovato, nudo e orribilmente mutilato, nel caveau di un negozio di argenti a Covent Garden. Il corpo è stato subito identificato dalla polizia, ma lei è convinta che si tratti di un'altra persona, più precisamente del suo fidanzato, di cui aveva perso le tracce proprio in quei giorni. Molte cose non quadrano nel racconto e nel comportamento della donna, ma è possibile che lei stessa sia vittima di un drammatico raggiro. Per quanto scettici, l'investigatore e la sua socia Robin Ellacott decidono di accettare l'incarico. In breve tempo si troveranno a indagare non solo su un brutale omicidio, ma su un caso che si allarga e si infittisce sempre più, tra indecifrabili simboli massonici, contrasti interni alle forze di polizia e interferenze della stampa. Nel frattempo, mentre sul campo si confermano una coppia imbattibile, Robin e Strike cercano di mettere ordine nelle loro incerte vite private. E forse è giunto il momento di guardarsi negli occhi e confessare ciò che da tempo fingono di non sapere.
Le intricate dinamiche poliziesche ed emotive che hanno fatto amare questa serie a milioni di lettori nel mondo crescono d'intensità in questo romanzo che, tra piste false e colpi di scena, dipinge un monumentale ritratto dei bassifondi di Londra e della società inglese.
«UN INTRECCIO CHE SI DIPANA A RITMO SCATENATO. CON UNA NATURALEZZA CHE PUÒ ESSERE FRUTTO SOLO DI GRANDE DISCIPLINA E ABILITÀ. UN TRIONFO DELLA NARRAZIONE».
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Giancarlo De Cataldo
«STILE APPASSIONATO, NARRAZIONE ACCURATA, RICOSTRUZIONE C'È DA AVERE PAURA».
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Le intricate dinamiche poliziesche ed emotive che hanno fatto amare questa serie a milioni di lettori nel mondo crescono d'intensità in questo romanzo che, tra piste false e colpi di scena, dipinge un monumentale ritratto dei bassifondi di Londra e della società inglese.
«UN INTRECCIO CHE SI DIPANA A RITMO SCATENATO. CON UNA NATURALEZZA CHE PUÒ ESSERE FRUTTO SOLO DI GRANDE DISCIPLINA E ABILITÀ. UN TRIONFO DELLA NARRAZIONE».
The Guardian
«VI TERRÀ SVEGLI TUTTA LA NOTTE».
The Observer
«PAGINE MEMORABILI, DAL RITMO INCALZANTE, CHE CONFERMANO L'INDISCUTIBILE ABILITÀ NARRATIVA DI GALBRAITH».
Giancarlo De Cataldo
«STILE APPASSIONATO, NARRAZIONE ACCURATA, RICOSTRUZIONE C'È DA AVERE PAURA».
la Lettura
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Published April 14, 2026
About the author
Robert Galbraith
31 books33.4k followersThis is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults.
NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads.
Rowling was born to Anne Rowling (née Volant) and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads.
Rowling was born to Anne Rowling (née Volant) and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.
Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.
Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books.
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