Yesterday The Telegraph reported that novelist Robert Galbraith, a known pen name, is in fact J. K. Rowling. The author of the "Harry Potter" series as well as one other book of fiction under her own name, her first "classic crime novel", The Cuckoo's Calling, was published by Mulholland Books, an imprint of Little, Brown, earlier this year (more details about the book, below).
Here is the author's biography from the publisher's website: After several years with the Royal Military Police, Robert Galbraith was attached to the SIB (Special Investigative Branch), the plain-clothes branch of the RMP. He left the military in 2003 and has been working since then in the civilian security industry. The idea for Cormoran Strike grew directly out of his own experiences and those of his military friends who returned to the civilian world. Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym.
When asked to confirm the news, Rowling said, "I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience. It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name."
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The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Galbraith
A Cormoran Strike Mystery
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
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