I don’t want to give these books 5 stars even if I really enjoy them because of who wrote them. But I also can’t leave them unrated. At least I can get rid of the book now! 😂

This case in this book was really interesting because of the mixed media aspect. I liked the inclusion of the online messaging forum, the tweets and newspaper articles as Strike and Robin researched an anonymous killer known only as Anomie across different areas of the internet. 

The killer is known in the book before the climax but it’s written in a way that it isn’t obvious, any of the suspects could have been the killer. 

Strike and Robin seem much more at loggerheads in this book, whether that’s due to them not want to admit they’re in love with each other, because they’re so close, or because they’re annoying each other by being so involved in the case I don’t know. In some areas it was fun to read but with others I just felt could be a bit out of character. 

But all is good by the end.

I also liked the addition of new subcontractors within the agency, it showed how popular the agency was and made the book slightly more realistic than if Strike and Robin did it all themselves. 

I can understand why people may be put off by this book, JK Rowling (aka Galbraith) writing about internet hate, something she does a lot, seems a bit weird. 

I enjoyed the story though and became very invested in the story when I got about 30% into the book. 

I would recommend it, if you can separate the art from the artist. 

4/5 stars.