Troubled Blood

#23 in Crime & mystery

Troubled Blood

Robert Galbraith

First published 2020Original language EN

8.18.1 / 10
Score out of 10266 ratingsConfidence 64%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#23 of 200 in Crime & mystery ahead of 89% of the category
944
Pages
about 17 h
Reading time
  • NYT bestseller · 3 weeks on the list, peaked at #3

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About the book

Troubled Blood is a crime novel written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The novel is the fifth in the Cormoran Strike series, and was released on 15 September 2020.

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Reading order · Cormoran Strike

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Score per volume8 volumes on a timeline, 2013 to 2025 · Best-rated volume: Troubled Blood
  1. The Cuckoo's Calling
    The Cuckoo's Calling2013 · 828 ratingsStart here
    7.77.7 / 10
  2. The Silkworm
    The Silkworm2014 · 554 ratings
    7.97.9 / 10
  3. Career of Evil
    Career of Evil2015 · 463 ratings
    8.08.0 / 10
  4. Lethal White
    Lethal White2018 · 351 ratings
    8.18.1 / 10
  5. Troubled Blood
    Troubled Blood2020 · 266 ratingsThis book
    8.18.1 / 10
  6. The Ink Black Heart
    The Ink Black Heart2022 · 190 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10
  7. The Running Grave
    The Running Grave2023 · Not ranked yet
    –Not ranked yet
  8. The Hallmarked Man
    The Hallmarked Man2025 · 85 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.3 across 266 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 64% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 8.1 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library7.715 6%
Google Books3.08 3%
Hardcover8.5243 91%

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It has 944 pages — longer than 99% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.

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