J.K. Rowling Announces New Book ‘Career of Evil’ Under Pen Name Robert Galbraith

Talented author Robert Galbraith will release his third crime novel, Career of Evil via Little Brown UK publishing company. He's keeps his schedule busy while in the midst of working on the screenplay for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as well as celebrating the April 29 HBO series premiere of Casual Vacancy, based on his best-selling thriller.

Confused? Robert Galbraith is actually J.K. Rowling--the brains and enchantment behind all seven Harry Potter installments.

Being such a favored author for a revolutionary book series, Rowling found it difficult to escape the publicity that surrounded her real name, which resulted in the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith. It wasn't long after the Little Brown UK publication of Galbraith's first novel, Casual Vacancy, that fans caught on, notes MTV News. Both Rowling and Galbraith took to twitter to celebrate Career of Evil together, the third novel in the Cormoran Strike series that follows The Cuckoo's Nest and The Silkworm.

The thriller novels focus on private investigator and Afghanistan war veteran, Comoran Strike. Seemingly unlucky, his recent relationship ended and he lost a leg in a land mine blast--but he doesn't refrain from cracking mysterious cases open in London alongside his assistant, Robin Ellacott. When the duo takes on a case concerning a supermodel's suicide, they start to realize it may not have been a suicide after all--rather, it was a murder. Gailbraith has a total of seven novels planned for the series, notes the Huffington Post.

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