Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, review: JK Rowling fails to
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Strike and Robin’s fifth outing is good on characterisation, weak on everything else, and has a sub-plot to make Rowling’s critics fume
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Strike: Troubled Blood review – the show's real hook: will Robin and Strike finally get together?, Television & radio
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LETHAL WHITE Kirkus Reviews
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Smearing authors with any dirt that comes to hand
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JK Rowling Troubled Blood tops charts despite transphobia accusations
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Troubled Blood: Review - The Rowling Library
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JK Rowling's new book comes under fire AGAIN for 'transliterating
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Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith - review: an intricately tangled doorstopper, London Evening Standard
Book Review: Rowling's 'Troubled Blood' frustrating and unpleasant
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How JK Rowling (Writing As Robert Galbraith) Sustains Reader Engagement in a Very Long Mystery - The Editorial Department, LLC
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J.K. Rowling's New Book Fuels Further Transphobic Controversy, by Gillian Sisley, Fearless She Wrote
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Book Review: Troubled Blood By Robert Galbraith is surprisingly ordinary
Book Review: Troubled Blood, by Robert Galbraith
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Troubled Blood~Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)~Cormoran Strike Series~Paper VG+ 9780316498951
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JK Rowling's new thriller takes No 1 spot amid transphobia row, JK Rowling