Troubled Blood: A Strike Novel.

GALBRAITH, Robert. [J.K. Rowling].

Item Number: 126374

London: Sphere, 2020.

First edition of the fifth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, written by J. K. Rowling and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, “Robert Galbraith.” With Rowling’s hologram sticker to the verso of the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Duncan Spilling. One of only 50 purportedly signed examples.

The fifth novel in the Cormoran Strike series, Troubled Blood sold 64,633 copies in its first week and was the top selling book in the UK. This was the biggest single week of sales for any Galbraith title and almost double the launch-week volume of the previous Strike Lethal White. In May 2021, the novel won the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards and in the same month it was shortlisted for the two Crime Writer's Association Awards.