Strike: where to start reading
Adapts Cormoran Strike by Robert Galbraith. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
at The Cuckoo's Calling.
Series 1 (2017, 3 episodes) adapts The Cuckoo's Calling in full: Strike's investigation into the death of supermodel Lula Landry, and Robin's arrival as his temp-turned-partner.
Series 1 leaves off at the end of book one. Start here:
The Silkworm
Faithful here
The show stays close to the book here, with nothing major changed, cut, or invented.
The BBC One series (broadcast in the US as C.B. Strike, first on Cinemax for series 1-3, then HBO Max from series 4 on) adapts Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike novels one book per series, in strict publication order, with no combining or reordering of source material -- the cleanest mapping in this dataset's crime cluster. Six series have aired: The Cuckoo's Calling (2017), The Silkworm (2017), Career of Evil (2018), Lethal White (2020), Troubled Blood (2022), and The Ink Black Heart (2024). A seventh series, adapting The Running Grave, is confirmed for BBC One and HBO Max and began filming in autumn 2025, with broadcast expected around Christmas 2026 -- it had not aired as of this build, so it is not offered as a unit here. An eighth novel, The Hallmarked Man, was published in September 2025 with no TV adaptation announced yet. A ninth novel, Sleep Tight, Evangeline, was announced in February 2026 and remains unpublished; the print series continues.
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