Cormoran Strike, the latest damaged detective in fiction

I know it is probably blasphemy to admit this, but the first JK Rowling book I ever read was not written by JK Rowling. Sadly, the entire Harry Potter hoopla passed me by entirely, but as a dedicated fan of detective fiction, I downloaded a novel by a certain Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling, the moment it became available on Kindle. So, I was among the fortunate few who came to the conclusion that this was a cracking good read, long before the world discovered that Robert Galbraith was, in fact, JK Rowling by another name.