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J.K. Rowling’s books

With the original Harry Potter series behind her, J.K. Rowling is well into her post-Hogwarts career.

‘The Casual Vacancy’

Release date: September 2012

Series? No. Television miniseries in development.

Purchase: On Amazon

Synopsis: When Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.

Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.

Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.

And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults.

‘The Cuckoo’s Calling’

cuckoos-calling-coverRelease date: April 2013

Series? Yes. Book 2 coming in 2014.

Purchase: On Amazon

Synopsis: A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide.

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, thelegendary 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 multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.

You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you’ve never seen them under an investigation like this.

‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Fantastic Beasts’

Information on Rowling’s Harry Potter series and her forthcoming spinoff movie series based on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them can be found in our Harry Potter Hub.

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