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J.K. Rowling channels Dickens for latest Galbraith outing, Lethal White, a gripping romp of a read

Lethal White By Robert Galbraith Robert Galbraith is the pen-name J.K. Rowling chose to write under for her first crime novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling (2013) – a title indebted to a poem by 19th-century English writer Christina Rossetti. It’s not hard to understand the allure of anonymity for the world’s most famous living author. As well as escaping the shadow of Harry Potter, Rowling was trying her hand at a new and distinctly adult genre. One wonders, too, if she was...

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