#27 in Crime & mystery
Career of Evil
- 544
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 4 weeks on the list, peaked at #2
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Our view
“Career of Evil” is the tightest of the first three Cormoran Strike novels, with a villain frightening precisely because he seems real. The mystery is cleverly built, but the growth of Strike and Robin is what keeps readers in the series. Some consider one section confusing and unnecessary. A long book at 544 pages, it gains from knowing the two earlier cases.
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About the book
Career of Evil is a crime novel written by British author J.K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the third novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels, and was published on 20 October 2015. It is followed by Lethal White in 2018, Troubled Blood in 2020, The Ink Black Heart in 2022, and The Running Grave in 2023.
Reading order · Cormoran Strike
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.2 across 463 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 76% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 20 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 8.2 | 443 | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is Career of Evil?
It has 544 pages — longer than 90% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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