Dunedin Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute

Book: The Running Grave (October 2023)

By Robert Galbraith

October 29, 2023

Private detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.

The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world.  Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones and unexplained deaths.

In order to try to rescue Will, Strike’s business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and travels to Norfolk to live incognito among them.  But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her…