"When frantic, disheveled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn't know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. A few days later, Robin reads news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart. Robin and her business partner, Cormoran Strike, become drawn into the quest uncover Anomie's true identity---but with a complex web of online aliases, business interests, and family conflicts to navigate, Strike and Robin find their powers of deduction stretched to new limits and their lives at risk in new and horrifying ways." - Cover.