Description
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 – and which threatens them in new and horrifying ways . . . A gripping, fiendishly clever mystery, The Ink Black Heart is a true tour-de-force.
Deborah –
I’m enjoying it but a chunk of the book so far is text chains and chat room conversations that display in very small, nonadjustable font on my kindle. Hard to read, feels like I’m missing critical info.
daytoncls –
I would not have bought this If I had realized there were pages of internet exchanges that I can’t enlarge. I buy kindle books because I can enlarge the font so am unhappy that I have to hold a magnifier over the screen to read these parts. So far I am enjoying the beginning where I can control the font size.
Diane –
Disappointing to be unable to enlarge the tiny print that part of the book is published in. This is a major problem in the Kindle edition.
MamaKath –
As others have already said, the Kindle formatting of the online conversations in this book is outrageously bad. Tiny type, often in two vertical columns per page. I have a relatively recent Kindle Paperwhite, and it IS possible to enlarge the font to a readable size, but it’s still so much trouble that it makes me want to throw the Kindle out the window. Whoever approved this formatting should be demoted to the mailroom. Personally I think Amazon should immediately provide a READABLE, reformatted version for everyone who has purchased the Kindle version.
Mom –
This book is unreadable on the kindle. Do not waste your money on it. It is quite disappointing that the publisher of a best seller (with a large number of pre-orders) could not be bothered to make sure their customers could actually read it. Much of the text appears in tiny type in two columns. The two columns on each page represent different conversations. Even if you could read the tiny type, in order to read the entire column of conversation, you have to go forward several pages and then go back to read the conversation in the next column. If you try to read everything on the page, it makes no sense.
N. Vance –
If this had been the first book in the series, I would not have finished it or read a second one. It is a real slog, with page after page of hard-to-read tiny text portraying private chats in an internet game based on an internetYou TubeNetflix cartoonmovie and Twitter threads and the like — all of which detracts from the flow of the story. TBH, I have never been interested in internet games or Twitter, and too many of the characters are loathsome trolls. I see enough of that IRL, and it’s a singularly unappealing read. If you like internet battles, maybe you’ll enjoy it. I doubt it.
ThoughtfulReader –
Very compelling mystery, especially if the online world is a familiar place.
Kindle Customer –
Rowling’s usual good writing, so much detail (sometimes hard to follow), so much research she does. Two famous detectives searching through the Internet underworld to catch a killer.