All three books have Robin being jealous of Strike's girlfriends even as she won't admit it to herself. All three books have the Girl Of The Week wanting more of a commitment and Strike, who fears being tied down, ultimately bailing from the relationship. He dates Nina Lascelles from Roper Chard Publishing in The Silkworm after getting introduced to her so he could gain entrance to the publishing house, he's dating Elin the divorcing mom in Career of Evil, and in Lethal White his girlfriend is Lorelei, who runs a vintage clothing shop and wears corsets to bed. Girl of the Week: Books 2, 3, and 4 all find Strike with a girlfriend.He speaks to Jonny briefly on the phone in Troubled Blood and spends most of it and Ink Black Heart texting with his sister Prudence but their planned meeting falls apart at the last minute during the latter. The Ghost: Six books in and Al is the only member of Cormoran's family from his father's side to appear as he's the only one who makes a point to have a relationship with Cormoran.Gay Best Friend: Guy Somé to Lula Landry, Joe North to Owen Quine.She doesn't understand how they can laugh and make jokes they understand that they'd go nuts if they didn't. Gallows Humor: Cormoran and his comrades' use of it is sometimes a source of tension with Robin, with her being new to the industry.Janice the nurse in Troubled Blood speaks with a thick Cockney accent and says "fort" for "thought". Wilson the Jamaican security guard in the first novel says "musta" for "must've" and "yuh" for "you". Funetik Aksent: Rowling uses this a lot with people who have non-RP accents.Aunt Joan, wife to Leda's brother Ted, offered a calm, stable maternal presence, and sometimes took Cormoran and his sister Lucy home when things with Leda got out of hand. She was also a Horrible Judge of Character who dated various lowlife musicians, her last husband Jeff Whittaker being the worst. Leda loved her children but was also a fun-loving, acid-dropping hippie and groupie who lived a nomadic existence in communes and squats and the like. Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Siblings-in-law with Cormoran's late mother Leda and his Aunt Joan.She is no more pleasant after Matthew and Robin split because of his cheating and Sarah gets pregnant in what Robin perceives to be The Baby Trap. The Ex's New Jerkass: Even before Matthew cheats on Robin with her, Robin describes Sarah as unpleasant, manipulative, and arrogant.Troubled Blood returns to the Elizabethan era by quoting Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, written about Queen Elizabeth 1st herself. The Silkworm quotes Elizabethan-era plays, while Career of Evil quotes lyrics from Blue Öyster Cult songs and Lethal White quotes the Henrik Ibsen play Rosmersholm. Epigraph: Each book has one epigraph per chapter, with sources themed after the plot.Also curvaceous and sexy, with the only possible difference between her and the standard English Rose being that she's taller than the average woman. English Rose: Robin, who in the first book is described as having "a milkmaid's coloring", pale, blonde, going pink when she blushes.
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Cluster F-Bomb / Country Matters: To a lesser degree than The Casual Vacancy, but still, this is not a series accommodating to virgin eyes.
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