Grave in the Run is the latest installment of JK Rowling’s hit novel Strike, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The novels have been adapted into a popular series for the BBC, with a sixth novel, Ink Black Heart, currently in production, starring Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger as the detective duo, Cormoran and Robin. The will-they-won’t-they plot has been going on for seven novels – but will the couple finally get together in the last book? Warning, major spoilers for anyone who hasn’t read the seventh novel, The Moving Grave…
Warning, spoilers ahead!
While the seventh novel The Running Grave may leave fans frustrated that Robin and Cormoran don’t get back together, the novel ends on something of a cliffhanger, marking the closest the characters have ever come to talking to someone about their feelings yet. So what happened?
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After Robin and Cormoran successfully bring down the UHC, with the leaders in custody and many of the people living at Chapman Farm saved, the novel’s epilogue ties up the remaining loose threads, including Cormoran’s reluctant meeting with his late ex-girlfriend Charlotte’s sister, Amelia. During the meeting, Amelia tells him that she burned Charlotte’s goodbye note after deciding not to show it to her nephews, but Cormoran correctly guesses that the contents include Charlotte blaming him for not helping her and accusing him of being in love with Robin.
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Later, after his return to the office, Robin and Cormoran are talking about work when Robin asks how lunch went, and Cormoran tells Robin that Charlotte believed he was in love with her.
© Sam Taylor Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott in the BBC series
“She was waiting for Strike to say, ‘which was obviously spiteful,’ or ’cause she never understood that a man and a woman could be just friends, or to make a joke. Still, he didn’t say anything to defuse the grenade that he “just threw it, but I just looked at her.”
In a harrowing cliffhanger, this is the exact moment Robin’s new boyfriend Ryan arrives to take them away for the weekend, leaving Robin’s response to Cormoran’s statement unknown. However, JK Rowling has confirmed on Xu, formerly known as Twitter, that she is already working on an eighth novel – so fans may get an answer sooner rather than later.
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© Sam TaylorRobin and Cormoran have a will-they-won’t-they relationship
Speaking back in 2017, the author revealed she had “ten more books” on the detective – having published three novels at the time. She told the BBC: “I met Tom for the first time [Burke, who plays Cormoran in the series]I said, ‘Well I hope you enjoy playing this character because I think I’ve got at least ten more books in me, so he might be locked in here for a few years.'”
© Laurence Cendrowicz Starring Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger
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