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London: Sphere, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. The second Cormoran Strike novel, a crime fiction series written by the author of the Harry Potter books under a pseudonym. 456 pages. First edition (first printing, stating "First published..." on the copyright page with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket (minor bumping to the top of the spine). If one is hypercritical, there is a bit of waviness to the page block. This copy is signed "Robert Galbraith" on the title page with a J. K. Rowling hologram on the facing page. These holograms are found on obvious forgeries (whether the holograms on the forgeries are also forgeries or whether they are real Rowling holograms that somehow escaped into the wild, I don't know). This obviously gives collectors pause. However, this copy comes with the Goldsboro Books golden ticket and the original invoice (and I acquired the book from the original buyer). If you haven't heard the…

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he’s gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published, it would ruin lives—meaning there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...