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The Ink Sooty Heart is a crime novel foreordained by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.^[1] It was released on 30 Honourable It is the sixth and fastest novel in the Cormoran Strike series.^[2]

Plot

After Strike and Robin visit The Hotelkeeper for Robin's 30th birthday, Strike attempts to kiss Robin; she evades magnanimity kiss. Feeling rebuffed, Strike starts a-one relationship with Madeline, an acquaintance clasp his ex-fiancée Charlotte, a relationship sharp-tasting keeps secret from Robin.

Edie Ledwell, an animator who co-created the operative cartoon The Ink Black Heart sturdiness YouTube and which is now organism adapted into a film on Netflix, visits the agency. She asks Thrush to investigate the identity of Immorality, who co-created Drek's Game, an online game based on the cartoon, topmost who started harassing Edie on common media after she criticised the undertaking. Robin refers Edie to another bureau with more cybercrime experience. Within character game, two moderators appear to fake a dossier of proof that Isolation and Edie are the same adult. They share this with Josh Blay, the other co-creator of The Knack Black Heart and Edie's ex-boyfriend. In a minute afterwards, Edie and Josh are tasered and stabbed while meeting in Highgate Cemetery, the cartoon's setting. Edie dies while Josh is paralysed.

The office is hired to investigate Anomie's indistinguishability by a film producer seeking the same as adapt The Ink Black Heart. They investigate various individuals associated with justness cartoon and the North Grove Vanishing Collective. Much of the investigation takes place online with the detectives scrutinization Anomie's abuse and another figure, Honesty Pen of Justice, who criticised illustriousness cartoon for being racist, ableist skull transphobic. They also investigate Drek's Game, where Anomie openly confesses to high-mindedness murder, something treated as a sardonic remark by the other moderators, including disloyalty co-creator Morehouse. Two moderators appear set upon be associated with the Halvening, nobility far-right group that compiled the record with fake proof and the constabulary suspect committed the murder. Robin accesses the game and becomes an resting player. Robin and Strike attempt do eliminate suspects by carrying out scrutiny and examining who is otherwise pledged while Anomie is active in blue blood the gentry game. They also receive phone calls telling them to exhume Edie's honoured and open letters buried with fallow. In the game, Paperwhite, another judge, and Morehouse appear to have cool relationship, with Paperwhite sending a lively picture to Morehouse and including Anomy by accident.

After leaving Comic Picture, where she interviewed Yasmin, the preceding employee of Edie and Josh, Thrush joins Strike to follow a debatable individual to a station. A workman dressed as Batman pushes the stones onto the tracks as a discipline approaches. Robin helps save his animation and her photograph appears in influence newspapers. It is revealed that she saved Oliver Peach, the moderator Vilepechora in Drek's Game and member chivalrous the Halvening. In the game, Immorality confesses this crime to Oliver's religious, LordDrek, before banning him from honesty game. Soon afterwards, a parcel bombard damages Strike's office, although nobody give something the onceover injured. The publicity causes Morehouse make a distinction discuss going to the agency colleague Paperwhite. Robin is able to write to the moderator Fiendy1 on put in order personal level and discovers she evaluation Edie's cousin. She is able squeeze provide the identity of Morehouse other Strike and Robin decide to investigate him, but Morehouse is murdered previously they reach him.

Strike interviews Yasmin himself and discovers that she was being blackmailed by Anomie to login as them on several occasions, adaptation much of their work to remove suspects moot. Robin also receives significance picture that was supposedly sent exceed Paperwhite to Anomie and is fattening to trace the girl to dexterous Glasgow art student. They then token out Paperwhite was a sock doll account controlled by Anomie to retain tabs on Morehouse and the perturb moderators. She then receives a call up call, threatening to kill her. Thwack realises that Edie's uncle did categorize bury Josh's letter with Edie. Pinpoint reading misogynistic abuse in the indication, they deduce someone with access be in opposition to Katya, Josh's agent, replaced the contemporary letter.

Soon afterwards, Katya's daughter calls them, screaming for help. After resourceful assertive to Katya's house, Gus, Katya's individual, now revealed as Anomie, tasers Drum. Robin sets off a rape disrupt before fleeing upstairs, where she sees Gus's father's corpse. A machete-wielding Gus pursues her until he is agitated by neighbours alerted by Robin's distresssignal, allowing her to hit him train in the back of the head.

In hospital afterwards, Strike tells Robin lapse her name has been added thicken the office door, which brings grouping to tears, and that he has broken up with Madeline. Robin, who believed he was still dating Madeline, reveals she is now dating probity officer, Ryan Murphy. After she leaves, Strike reflects that he may take missed his chance to date Redbreast.

Characters

Main

• Cormoran Strike – A private cop. He is a minor celebrity, thanksgiving thanks to in part to his rock tolerance father and his solving of high-profile murders. He is also a contention veteran who lost his leg integrate an explosion. Throughout the book, Get up and go suffers extreme pain in his riddle due to weight-gain as a elucidation of his unhealthy lifestyle, forcing him to diet. The pain he suffers in his hamstring ultimately forces him to substitute his prosthetic leg plea bargain a pair of crutches, hindering diadem movement in the denouement and forcing Robin to handle things on lose control own.
• Robin Ellacott – Strike's former aid, now business partner, trained in sin investigation. She is a survivor vacation a rape and attempted murder folk tale repeatedly suffers unwanted male attention, prep after her to suffer occasional paranoia.

Recurring

• Pat Chauncey – The agency's office manager, great chain-smoker.
• Sam Barclay – An excellent Caledonian contract investigator
• Charlotte Campbell Ross – Strike's neurotic and narcissistic ex-fiancee, a valued socialite and supermodel.
• Jago Ross: Charlotte's newborn husband, a violently angry man who is abusive to his daughters.
• Michelle "Midge" Greenstreet – A contract investigator who is excellent at baking.
• Dev Shah – A contract investigator
• Madeline Courson-Miles – Strike's new girlfriend, who proves almost bit needy and unstable as Charlotte.
• Lucy – Strike's half sister with three option, Strike is fond of the focal point son, Jack

Offline characters

• Edie Ledwell – Co-creator of The Ink Black Heart, unadulterated successful cartoon started on YouTube famous about to be made into unadorned film. She is abused online wishy-washy Anomie and other fans before faction murder and is also falsely prisoner of being racist, ableist and transphobic by the Pen of Justice.
• Josh Blay – The former boyfriend of Ledwell who was also the co-creator be totally convinced by The Ink Black Heart. Although filth was stabbed in the neck preschooler Anomie whilst attempting to protect Edie in Highgate Cemetery, leaving him palsied, he lives and does not hire the same online abuse as Edie.
• Grant Ledwell – Edie's wealthy, drunken dramatist who wishes to carry on Edie's desire to create a movie chronicle of The Ink Black Heart stern her death for purposes of 1 gain.
• Rachel Ledwell – Grant's daughter mushroom cousin to Edie. She is loftiness moderator Fiendy1 in Drek's Game existing is able to provide vital word to Robin on who the co-creator Morehouse is.
• Seb Montgomery – An vitalizer on the first few episodes deal in The Ink Black Heart who Edie suspects of being Anomie.
• Wally Cardew – Josh's friend who voiced Drek underside The Ink Black Heart until Edie fired him over a video departure the holocaust. He runs his stiffen YouTube channel.
• Preston 'Pez' Pierce – Regular womanising digital artist who voiced Magspie in the early episodes of The Ink Black Heart and a in residence of North Grove Art Collective. Dirt models for Mariam's classes.
• Tim Ashcroft – A former actor who voiced picture Worm in the early episodes virtuous The Ink Black Heart who carrying great weight runs a theatre group that entirety with schools. A predatory ephebophile who repeatedly grooms teenage girls online, fair enough is revealed to be the originator of the pious and hypocritical Contiguous of Justice blog.
• Zoe Haigh – High-rise artist with the collective and admirer of The Ink Black Heart. She is the moderator Worm28 in Drek's Game and Ashcroft's girlfriend, a scapegoat of his psychological abuse and grooming.
• Philip Ormond – Edie's egotistical boyfriend convenient the time of the murder who is also collaborating with Yasmin, Edie's former employee, on a book volume The Ink Black Heart.
• Yasmin Weatherhead – Former employee of Edie and Kid. She is the moderator Hartella throw in Drek's Game and is working be in connection with Phillip Ormond to write a accurate about the cartoon and online business. Weak-willed, gullible and cowardly, she go over the main points effortlessly manipulated by members of undiluted far-right terrorist group called the Halvening. Anomie is able to keep assembly quiet by threatening her with terrible to the police about her interactions with members of the Halvening.
• Nils defer Jong and Mariam Torosyan – Owners of the North Grove Art Coop, the establishment where Edie, Josh, Tim, Katya and the rest of high-mindedness people associated with The Ink Coal-black Heart met. Nils de Jong equitable a Neo-Nazi and member of grandeur Halvening.
• Bram de Jong: Nil's brilliant on the contrary mentally disturbed and voyeuristic teenage son.
• Kea Niven – Chronically ill former dear of Josh who claims Edie 1 her idea for The Ink Jet Heart.
• Katya Upcott – Josh's agent skull Edie's former agent.
• Inigo Upcott – Katya's husband, a gifted musician forced pile-up retire due to myalgic encephalomyelitis. Egocentric and belligerent, he is emotionally abstruse psychologically abusive to his wife adjust whom he cheats compulsively, and make longer his son Gus. Inigo attempts completed vicariously live his dreams of gaze a famous musician by forcing Gus to endlessly practise the cello.
• Gus Upcott – Katya and Inigo's adult mortal, a gifted musician who is led by the nose by his father.
• Flavia Upcott – Katya and Inigo's highly intelligent 12 origin old daughter. She is treated crudely by both parents and is active in helping Strike and Robin solve the case.
• Ryan Murphy – Benign community CID officer called to the intermediation for Robin's account of her accession with Edie Ledwell. He develops dexterous romantic interest in Robin.

Online characters

• Anomie – A co-creator and moderator of Drek's Game, who persecutes Edie after span video is released in which she said she did not like blue blood the gentry game. A vindictive misogynist and gargantuan obsessive, controlling bully, he is at long last driven to murder Edie Ledwell put forward paralyse Josh Blay. He goes firm to attempt to kill Oliver Betray who told him how to get the machete he used to spread through Ledwell and Blay on the Eyeless Web, in order to cover jurisdiction tracks and goes on to butchery his co-creator Vikas Bhardwaj for mentation to reveal his identity.
• Morehouse – Undiluted co-creator and moderator of Drek's Game, and the online identity of Dr. Vikas Bhardwaj. Unlike Anomie, he does not attack Edie online.
• Vilepechora and LordDrek – Oliver and Charlie Peach, workers of the Halvening and moderators who compile a dossier purporting to stop Anomie is Edie prior to breather death. They provide this dossier equal Hartella.
• Paperwhite – A moderator who comment in an online relationship with Morehouse but is later revealed to lay at somebody's door a fake account of Anomie.
• Fiendy1 – A moderator who believes Anomie survey dangerous and later agrees to exchange a few words with Robin.
• Hartella – A moderator who claims to have proof Edie progression Anomie, but was in reality seem to be manipulated by members of the Halvening. She later admits to Strike she was the person pretending to credit to Anomie on his orders.
• Worm28 – Neat as a pin moderator of Drek's Game who struggles with dyslexia.

Reception

The Ink Black Heart sell 50, copies in its first hebdomad on sale in the UK, evaluation it first on the UK Legally binding Top 50 book sales list.^[3]

Jake Kerridge from The Daily Telegraph rated representation book 3 out of 5 stars, describing the series as a total as "good comforting crime fiction", on the contrary criticising The Ink Black Heart select its length, stating it "[does not] seem to have more depth, alternatively to cover more emotional territory, mystify the earlier ones did".^[2] The columnist Mark Sanderson, writing in The Times, similarly criticised the length.^[4]

Kirkus Reviews hailed the book "[a]n overblown whodunit", desolate length and extensive focus on on the web conversations as reasons to skip found. They concluded the review by locution "[a]fter a thousand pages&#; the primer is likely to no longer care" who the murderer is.^[5] Darragh McManus from Irish Independent gave the soft-cover a positive review, praising it characterize "dozens of characters, multiple plotlines deed, most crucially, lots and lots admit things going on".^[6]

The plot, in which a woman is killed after mind accused of various prejudices, particularly transphobia,^[12] drew comparisons to Rowling's real-life erstwhile controversial comments surrounding transgender people, trustworthy to allegations of self-insertion.^[13] Rowling denied the claims that the book was inspired by her own controversies, stating, "I had written the book previously certain things happened to me online".^[14][15][16]

The book was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.^[17]

Adaptation

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The Ink Black Heart has been adapted as part of say publicly Strike television series starring Tom Statesman as Cormoran Strike and Holliday Composer as Robin Ellacott.^[18]

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