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Robert Galbraith Books in Order

Robert Galbraith has written 7 books, published between 2014 and 2025. The first book is The Silkworm (2014) and the newest is The Hallmarked Man (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
7
Published
2014–2025
Confirmed
4 of 7 titles
Pages on record
3,617 in 5 of 7 books
Reading time
60–90 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,617 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 5 of 7 titles with a page count on record.

See all 7 books in order Printable Robert Galbraith checklist

Robert Galbraith is the author of 7 catalogued crime novels, with Cormoran Strike as the recurring character. The run goes from The Silkworm (2014) through Career of Evil (2015), Lethal White (2018), Troubled Blood (2020), The Ink Black Heart (2022) and The Running Grave (2023) to The Hallmarked Man (2025). The books have a median length of 649 pages. Catalogue subjects include crime, England, missing persons, criminal investigation and detective fiction, and the Galbraith catalogue remains ongoing.

Robert Galbraith's crime novels center on private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott, who investigate cases across different parts of British society. The novels have been adapted into a BBC television production, and each book also develops the relationship between Strike and Ellacott alongside its central case.

How many Robert Galbraith books are there?

Robert Galbraith has 7 books, released between 2014 and 2025.

Robert Galbraith Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 7 Robert Galbraith books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (2014)
  2. Cover of Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith, book 3 of the Cormoran Strike series (2015)
  3. Cover of Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, book 4 of the Cormoran Strike series (2018)
  4. Cover of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (2020)
  5. Cover of The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (2022)
  1. 1
    The Silkworm2014 · 455 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014455
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  2. 2
    Career of EvilCormoran Strike #32015 · 497 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2015497
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  3. 3
    Lethal WhiteCormoran Strike #42018 · 649 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018649
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  4. 4
    Troubled Blood2020 · 944 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020944
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  5. 5
    The Ink Black Heart2022 · 1072 pages · confirmed 1/4
    20221072
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  6. 6
    The Running GraveCormoran Strike #72023 · confirmed 4/4
    2023–
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  7. 7
    The Hallmarked ManCormoran Strike #82025 · confirmed 4/4
    2025–
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Robert Galbraith books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Cormoran Strike in order

4 books
  1. 3. Career of Evil
  2. 4. Lethal White
  3. 7. The Running Grave
  4. 8. The Hallmarked Man

Standalone books

3 books

3 Robert Galbraith titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Robert Galbraith Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Robert Galbraith books run from The Silkworm (2014) to The Hallmarked Man (2025), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Robert Galbraith in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Robert Galbraith books in order?

No. No source lists any of the 7 Robert Galbraith books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.

Where to start with Robert Galbraith

Start with The Silkworm (2014), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Robert Galbraith book?

The Hallmarked Man (2025) is the newest Robert Galbraith book released so far.

Is there a new Robert Galbraith book coming?

No next Robert Galbraith book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Robert Galbraith at a glance

Still publishing
Robert Galbraith published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Robert Galbraith books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
3,617 pages across the 5 of 7 books with a recorded length, a median of 649 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Robert Galbraith books, 4 of 7, were published in the 2020s.
Corroboration
4 of the 7 titles appear in all four independent book listings.

What the Robert Galbraith books are about

4 of the 7 Robert Galbraith books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: private investigators is tagged on 4 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.