LONDON -- Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has announced she will be releasing the third installment in her mystery-thriller trilogy, which she pens under the name Robert Galbraith.
Career of Evil , which follows the investigations of private detective Cormoran Strike and assistant Robin Ellacott, is slated for a late October release.
#CareerOfEvil will be published 22nd October-visit the website to find out more! http://t.co/3IIUdvuzoc pic.twitter.com/d8wIrxAVVL— Robert Galbraith (@RGalbraith) June 11, 2015
Described by publisher Little Brown as a "fiendishly clever mystery", the book opens with Ellacott getting a package containing a woman's severed leg and finds Strike trying to unravel who is responsible.
Rowling announced the new release with a tweet calling her pen name her "good friend".
My good friend @RGalbraith’s new novel, CAREER OF EVIL will be published on 22 Oct. http://t.co/B8dFCYF42R. pic.twitter.com/T7DADteMd5— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) June 11, 2015