Lethal White is the fourth Cormoran Strike novel. As usual, I enjoyed it.

As usual, the main narrative of the novel is a murder investigation, this one triggered by a young man with a mental illness who believes he may have witnessed a child’s murder and burial in the woods near his home some years before the start of the novel.

The case leads to the Minister of Culture, Jasper Chiswell, and the investigation into his son Freddie’s death in Afghanistan, as well as the rest of his family and some left wing environmental activists.

This book also features art, which I am on and off randomly obsessed with.

I enjoyed Lethal White. I thought the motive was excellent and the story was well written.

My favorite part of the series continues to be Robin. She’s smart, determined, quite a bit ballsy, and I admire her struggle with PTSD because 1) it’s hard and 2) she does a lot of things I feel like I would do if I had PTSD. But anyway, I like everything about her except her sticking by her unsupportive boyfriend/fiancé/husband even though he’s a selfish cow. BUT THAT WAS FINALLY REMEDIED IN THIS BOOK. SHE FINALLY DUMPS HIM.

This is clearly setting up Robin and Strike as…endgame? Not 100% sure about that and not 100% certain how I feel about it, but honestly it doesn’t matter because OMG SHE DUMPED MATTHEW AND THANK GOD BECAUSE HE WAS AWFUL.

I don’t want to spoil too much of the case. I enjoy the cases in these stories because I find them interesting and difficult to work out (I don’t enjoy stories where I work out the end too much, makes me feel like I wasted my time). So I’ll cut this off here. BUT ROBIN DUMPED MATTHEW. YAY.

Tagged: authors: robert galbraith, books: lethal white, genre: crime fiction, genre: mystery