The hit crime drama praised as "the BBC at its best" is returning to screens. Strike: The Running Grave, the seventh book in the Cormoran Strike series, will be adapted for TV, bringing back familiar faces.
Plot and Cast
Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger reprise their roles as Detective Cormoran Strike and assistant Robin Ellacott. In the new series, the duo are tasked with helping a worried father rescue his son from a religious cult in the Norfolk countryside, with Robin going undercover inside the cult.
The synopsis states: "In Strike: The Running Grave, Cormoran Strike is hired by a father to locate his son, Will, who has joined the religious cult known as the Universal Humanitarian Church (UHC). To investigate the deeply sinister undertones and suspicious deaths surrounding the UHC, Robin Ellacott goes undercover at the cult's remote Norfolk headquarters, uncovering dangers and trauma that take a devastating toll on her."
Background and Critical Acclaim
The drama is based on the Cormoran Strike novels by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The first series, The Cuckoo's Calling, aired on the BBC in 2017 and was an instant hit. Critics have described it as both "an extraordinarily fine drama" and "brilliantly acted".
The Independent previously wrote: "Strike: Troubled Blood, in other words, is the BBC at its best, and now, as in the 1970s, the corporation is one of the few things in this benighted nation that actually works and is world-class."
Viewing Information
A release date has not yet been announced, but with filming underway, it could drop later this year. All six previous series are available to stream on BBC iPlayer.
