--- product_id: 345726342 title: "TROUBLED BLOOD (B PB)" price: "₱2920" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/345726342-troubled-blood-b-pb store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # TROUBLED BLOOD (B PB) **Price:** ₱2920 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** TROUBLED BLOOD (B PB) - **How much does it cost?** ₱2920 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/345726342-troubled-blood-b-pb) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. Plus the pair are still battling their feelings for one another, while Robin is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention.As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .A breathtaking, labyrinthine epic, Troubled Blood is the fifth Strike and Robin novel and the most gripping and satisfying yet.Praise for the Strike series:'A blistering piece of crime writing'Sunday Times'The work of a master storyteller' Daily Telegraph'Unputdownable'Daily Express'Highly inventive storytelling'Guardian'Superb . . . an ingenious whodunnit'Sunday Mirror'Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship' Independent'Outrageously entertaining'Financial Times Review: A new mystery and old favourite characters - There is an art to writing a good murder mystery story. Most of the times many a great artist fail to reach that end satisfactorily, but here Galbraith AKA JK Rowling does more than enough. A good mystery can hook you like no other but when the story comes to an end you get up and push on without thinking too much about the story you read, here though that's not the case. What Galbraith does best is create such a realistic ray of characters especially our erstwhile heroes, Cormoron Strike & Robin ellacott, that you find yourself truly invested not only in their life's triumphs and failures but at the same time in the investigation that somehow runs parallel to their own lives. That is a good book to read. Without giving too much away you should read this book for how the lives of our favourite duo has gone on since the end of the last book (Lethal White) and the coming loss for strike and messy divorce struggle for robin affects them as they tackle a cold case of a Doctor who disappeared without a trace 40 years ago. Her daughter hires them to understand and try and get information if she is alive or dead. Unreliable and dogey witnesses and some dead ones since the case is 4 decades old, botched police investigation as the lead investigator had a mental breakdown during the initial stages of the investigation and the occult notebook he left behind that plays a vital role. A psychopath serial killer who is the fictional equivalent of Ted Bundy, new agency detectives plus the whole in office politics with masculine toxicity and some scenes if not the best and gorish galbraith has written yet. Definitely a page turner full of in depth character insecurity for our will-they-won't-they couple and complex plot that just might surprise you. An ambitious project handled my a master. Review: Conundrum! - Book # 5 in the Cormoran Strike series which got released with a tremendous amount of hullabaloo regards JK Rowling’s views about trans people and honestly, if you are like me, hiding away under the rocks and skimming over anything related to the issue in question and have no interest whatsoever in knowing about such views, then Cormoran Strike series is definitely worth a read for mystery lovers. Troubled Blood, however, I would recommend to the fans of series rather than all and sundry. It can surely be read as a stand-alone coz the author does give a bit of background of past events but like all series, there are incidents in Robin’s and Strike’s life that can be understood only if read in order, like for example, why Strike has trouble in completely cutting off the toxic relationship with his manipulative ex-Charlotte? The crime drama which has captured the heart of millions has so much going for it in this novel, but there are also segments of the story that bored me to death. The central mystery is a cold case that of a young doctor who simply disappeared after a day of work. 40 yrs. of torment and grief, her daughter Anna is looking for some measure of closure which is why she gives Strike and Robin a year to manage something out of nothing. Consequently, we get to see the events that occur in Robin’s and Strike’s life due the course of a year and there’s more or less a pressure cooker situation in Strike’s life with his aunt’s illness, Charlotte’s machinations, his estranged father and siblings trying to reconnect and Strike has no emotional maturity to handle the compounding problems. Robin, meanwhile, has her own share of worries, majorly handling the responsibility of the firm in the absence of Strike, a delayed divorce with Mathew, unwanted attention from a colleague, and struggling with life decisions at 30 years of age. I loved how Robin is so forthright in acknowledging the fact that with the kind of job that she’s involved in, marriage and children are probably not going to be the priority in her life. The novel's basic premise weaving together a missing person case with the butchery of a serial killer is remarkable, even though the pacing is slow and the author does go into detailed descriptions of the personal difficulties faced by Strike and Robin which made for some fascinating reading. What put me off was the descriptive astrology and tarot card study. It is being said the previous cop had a breakdown and was using these as a means to uncover the killer and Strike and Robin try to decipher the hidden madness inside the symbols and diagrams but honestly, I think it could have been achieved without the additional 100 or 200 pages on the subject. Anyways, the series is definitely growing in strength, my only wish that the mystery element has a little more thrilling aspects added to it in this labyrinthine plot of myriad clues and hidden mirages. I am sure that we haven’t had the last of Charlotte and that it would take another 2 books in the series for any development in the relationship between Strike and Robin. 4 stars for the brilliantly devised and convoluted story which has its threads spread out like a maze and serpentine complexity that boggles the reader’s mind. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #39,280 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #257 in Workplace Romance #577 in Science Fiction Crime & Mystery #632 in Crime Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 75,568 Reviews | ## Images ![TROUBLED BLOOD (B PB) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91WRYYsSU1L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A new mystery and old favourite characters *by A***N on 17 September 2020* There is an art to writing a good murder mystery story. Most of the times many a great artist fail to reach that end satisfactorily, but here Galbraith AKA JK Rowling does more than enough. A good mystery can hook you like no other but when the story comes to an end you get up and push on without thinking too much about the story you read, here though that's not the case. What Galbraith does best is create such a realistic ray of characters especially our erstwhile heroes, Cormoron Strike & Robin ellacott, that you find yourself truly invested not only in their life's triumphs and failures but at the same time in the investigation that somehow runs parallel to their own lives. That is a good book to read. Without giving too much away you should read this book for how the lives of our favourite duo has gone on since the end of the last book (Lethal White) and the coming loss for strike and messy divorce struggle for robin affects them as they tackle a cold case of a Doctor who disappeared without a trace 40 years ago. Her daughter hires them to understand and try and get information if she is alive or dead. Unreliable and dogey witnesses and some dead ones since the case is 4 decades old, botched police investigation as the lead investigator had a mental breakdown during the initial stages of the investigation and the occult notebook he left behind that plays a vital role. A psychopath serial killer who is the fictional equivalent of Ted Bundy, new agency detectives plus the whole in office politics with masculine toxicity and some scenes if not the best and gorish galbraith has written yet. Definitely a page turner full of in depth character insecurity for our will-they-won't-they couple and complex plot that just might surprise you. An ambitious project handled my a master. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Conundrum! *by R***️ on 16 May 2021* Book # 5 in the Cormoran Strike series which got released with a tremendous amount of hullabaloo regards JK Rowling’s views about trans people and honestly, if you are like me, hiding away under the rocks and skimming over anything related to the issue in question and have no interest whatsoever in knowing about such views, then Cormoran Strike series is definitely worth a read for mystery lovers. Troubled Blood, however, I would recommend to the fans of series rather than all and sundry. It can surely be read as a stand-alone coz the author does give a bit of background of past events but like all series, there are incidents in Robin’s and Strike’s life that can be understood only if read in order, like for example, why Strike has trouble in completely cutting off the toxic relationship with his manipulative ex-Charlotte? The crime drama which has captured the heart of millions has so much going for it in this novel, but there are also segments of the story that bored me to death. The central mystery is a cold case that of a young doctor who simply disappeared after a day of work. 40 yrs. of torment and grief, her daughter Anna is looking for some measure of closure which is why she gives Strike and Robin a year to manage something out of nothing. Consequently, we get to see the events that occur in Robin’s and Strike’s life due the course of a year and there’s more or less a pressure cooker situation in Strike’s life with his aunt’s illness, Charlotte’s machinations, his estranged father and siblings trying to reconnect and Strike has no emotional maturity to handle the compounding problems. Robin, meanwhile, has her own share of worries, majorly handling the responsibility of the firm in the absence of Strike, a delayed divorce with Mathew, unwanted attention from a colleague, and struggling with life decisions at 30 years of age. I loved how Robin is so forthright in acknowledging the fact that with the kind of job that she’s involved in, marriage and children are probably not going to be the priority in her life. The novel's basic premise weaving together a missing person case with the butchery of a serial killer is remarkable, even though the pacing is slow and the author does go into detailed descriptions of the personal difficulties faced by Strike and Robin which made for some fascinating reading. What put me off was the descriptive astrology and tarot card study. It is being said the previous cop had a breakdown and was using these as a means to uncover the killer and Strike and Robin try to decipher the hidden madness inside the symbols and diagrams but honestly, I think it could have been achieved without the additional 100 or 200 pages on the subject. Anyways, the series is definitely growing in strength, my only wish that the mystery element has a little more thrilling aspects added to it in this labyrinthine plot of myriad clues and hidden mirages. I am sure that we haven’t had the last of Charlotte and that it would take another 2 books in the series for any development in the relationship between Strike and Robin. 4 stars for the brilliantly devised and convoluted story which has its threads spread out like a maze and serpentine complexity that boggles the reader’s mind. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An exciting thriller novel. *by S***H on 12 July 2025* A captivating novel which keeps you hooked, though it seems a bit over stretched at times. 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