The Ink Black Heart

De: Robert Galbraith

Narrado por: Robert Glenister

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.

©2022 Robert Galbraith (P)2022 Mulholland Books

I really enjoyed it!

Update: I really enjoyed this audiobook! I didn't mind the online exchanges, and I thought that Robert Glenister did an amazing job with a very difficult narrative challenge. No spoilers, but I was so glad that the book's ending leaves room for more books! And--for what it's worth--as much as I disagree with JKR's personal politics, the book didn't read to me like a "woe-is-me" meta-narrative that some people are making it out to be. I was so looking forward to this audiobook, and it didn't disappoint!

Original review: I’m only mid-way through the audiobook, so I’ll update my review but I wanted to assure other nervous listeners who—like me—were so excited for this audiobook: the online exchanges don’t bother me! Would it be easier to read on-the-page? Sure. Does it require you to pay a little more attention? Yeah. But Robert Glenister does a great job with this unique challenge. Don’t let that scare you away.

Wrong format

I'm a few hours in and am loving the story so far. But I wholeheartedly agree with other reviews that all the chats and online posts etc are difficult to follow. Robert Glenister is excellent as always, but reading the book might be a better option this time. I'm finding it easier to follow now that I've listened for 5 or 6 hours, but it was definitely an adjustment.

Chats and Tweets Not a Dealbreaker!

I’m glad I took the chance on the audiobook! I enjoy the narration on this series, so I was concerned when I saw all the negative reviews. They get a bit tedious to listen to, and I wish the producers had approached them differently for the audiobook. However, if you’ve spent any amount of time on social media, I don’t think you’ll have trouble following them.

TERF

TERF propaganda. That’s all. How the mighty hath fallen to this insane, terfy, and nonsensical dribble :(

Brilliantly written!

Galbraith is an author without par. This story is intricate and amazing. At first I didn’t think I would like it because of the social media aspect of the story, but I was drawn into the whole storyline again and again. The research and skill it took to make this story work shows a master master storyteller at work. I’m going to listen to it again and I’m waiting anxiously for the next book in the series. Very well done Galbraith!

iwish i read the reviews first

do not, do not, do not try to listen. i am sure it is a great story, but listening to the computer chat is extremely difficult to follow. the narrator is fabulous, but no one can read the "@" sign and various emojis and have it make sense, no matter how good they are. i think the narrator received the manuscript and probably said, "are you kidding me?"

As usual, knocked it out of the park

The only change I would make is to not have Glenister read the Tweets because it's disconcerting to have Strike's voice "reading" them. It would be much better to have other people perform these.

Terrific

Looking forward to the next. The fill of the Troubled Blood and mod of Strike and Ellacot. I’m an overage groupie

Dynamic

Perhaps Her/His best book yet. I use both genders because we all know she publishes under a man's name in this series. Here we have the online world displayed warts and all. Terrorists, misogyny, pedophiles kand homicidal lunatics hiding behind various online nom de plumes are exposed. In the midst of this are a variety of other cases which, though not equally addressed, are more than passing moments in the book. Well written as always and well performed, again, as always.

A bit of a slog but I still enjoyed it

Joining the chorus of people who had a tough time with the reading aloud of tweets and DMs with sometimes endless lists of @s and #s. Also had names AND handles to track for a fairly large cast of characters, so someone would have to have a better memory than I do to keep up with it all without creating a cheat sheet or getting a digital or paper copy of the book as well, as some reviewers here have said they did. Still, by the end I mostly had it sorted.

I have to say that I am getting a bit tired of the recurring plot point and long descriptions of Strike’s painful overuse of his stump and refusal to do anything about it until it reaches a crisis, although that is entirely within his character.

The tension of attraction and barriers between the two is still enjoyable although it seems to be getting harder for the author to credibly maintain.

I stayed with it because it was an interesting story, because I like Strike and Robin and Pam, and because of the great narrator. I am still a fan, overall, and I will snap up the next one to listen to when it comes out.