Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger reunite for Strike – The Ink Black Heart

Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger reunite for Strike – The Ink Black Heart


By Michael Pickard
February 14, 2024

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Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are back on set for the sixth instalment of the BBC’s detective drama Strike. Based once again on JK Rowling’s crime novels written as Robert Galbraith, Strike – The Ink Black Heart sees the pair reprise their roles as private investigators and business partners Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. The cast also includes David Westhead, Christian McKay, Emma Fielding, Tupele Dorgu and James Nelson-Joyce. When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, Robin doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity. Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this – and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and Cormoran then become drawn into the quest to uncover Anomie’s true identity. But with a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find themselves embroiled in a case that stretches them to their limit. Returning cast include Ruth Sheen as Pat, Strike’s office manager, alongside Jack Greenlees as Sam Barclay, Natasha O’Keeffe as Charlotte and Caitlin Innes Edwards as Isla. Sue Tully also returns to direct Strike – … Continue reading Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger reunite for Strike – The Ink Black Heart

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