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(47,953 posts) Sun Jul 14, 2013, 12:10 PM Jul 2013

JK Rowling unmasked as author of acclaimed detective novel

By Robert Watts
11:24PM BST 13 Jul 2013

Writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the Harry Potter creator wrote a 450-page crime novel called The Cuckoo’s Calling.

The book is billed as a “classic crime novel”, written in the style of PD James and Ruth Rendell, according to the Sunday Times.

Its plot centres on the death of a troubled model who falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony. Her brother calls in Cormoran Strike, a damaged war veteran turned private detective, to investigate her death.

Released in April, the book has generated heated speculation about the identity of the book’s author.
The secret could not last. Eventually it was noticed that Mr Galbraith and Miss Rowling shared the same publisher and editor.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10178344/JK-Rowling-unmasked-as-author-of-acclaimed-detective-novel.html

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JK Rowling unmasked as author of acclaimed detective novel (Original Post) n2doc Jul 2013 OP

Hadn't yet heard of that one. SheilaT Jul 2013 #1

When will things start to go her way? NightWatcher Jul 2013 #2

That was my guess after the second chapter. It's a very well-written mystery. nt msanthrope Jul 2013 #3

Thanks, just bought the Kindle copy for my wife. n/t Blackford Jul 2013 #4

Interesting, but why is it unusual that two authors had the same publisher and editor? tanyev Jul 2013 #5

thanks for the heads up.. I'll have to read it. Cha Jul 2013 #6

SheilaT

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1. Hadn't yet heard of that one.

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Sun Jul 14, 2013, 12:16 PM

Jul 2013

And what impresses me the most is that she's so prolific, because Casual Vacancy has also just been published.

As it is, unless libraries and bookstores place that book under her name, quite a few readers may remain blissfully unaware that JK
Rowling is Robert Galbraith.

I'm not a published writer, but I can readily imagine wanting to separate one kind of writing from another, and doing that by publishing under a different name.