Review: The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7)
Gaby Meares
I love listening to this series. At over 900 pages, the books are getting just too big to handle! It was over 34 hours of listening, but didn’t feel like it.
Robin is sent undercover into a religious cult to try and persuade a client’s son to leave. It’s apparent that the cult is not the warm and fuzzy family that they like to project to the outside world. Robin witnesses and is soon subjected to near starvation, sexual coercion and torture, all in the name of their religion. I think a good edit of this part of the book could have made for a tighter story. It is also quite harrowing, so may not be for everyone.
As always, Robin and Cormoran dance around their mutual attraction - you have to read the book to find out where that leads!
I found this instalment a vast improvement on The Ink Black Heart, which was hard work to listen to as an audio.