Troubled Blood

Name: Troubled Blood
ISBN: 9780316498937

J. K. Rowling · 2020

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough — who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.As Strike and Robin investigate Margot's disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly...

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defrostSep 2024

Troubled Blood isn't marketing transphobia save in the mind of a reviewer with an axe to grind wrt Rowling's public statements.

The wikipedia page outlines the charge that it contains "pernicious anti-trans tropes" and continues:

    Nick Cohen, writing for The Spectator, argued that the transphobia accusations were baseless and slanderous, noting that Dennis Creed is investigated along with a dozen other suspects.

    He also stated that the book does not engage in the politics of women-only spaces and access to gender reassignment treatments.

    Alison Flood, writing for The Guardian, expressed similar views, arguing that people who have not read the book were making wrong assumptions based on a single review.

    Allan Massie, writing for The Scotsman, stated of the character of Creed that "there is no suggestion that he was transgender".

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defrostSep 2024
> the point is she chose to include transgender characters
Which character in Troubled Blood is transgender? Is there a transgender character in The Ink Black Heart ?
It's not Dennis Creed as I recall from my reading some time past, certainly not Edie Ledwell.
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SpivakAug 2022
Like okay, it's all public.
The essay: https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-...
The law: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/j-k-row...
More the law: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/06/jk-rowling-transphobic-tra...
Her support of the LBG alliance: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1518542559089512448
The LGB alliance supporting her: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/21/lgb-alliance-jk-rowlin...
The book: https://www.amazon.com/Troubled-Blood-Cormoran-Strike-Novel/...
So you don't have to read the book: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-transphobic-is-jk-rowlings...
Her support of public TERFs: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/world/europe/jk-rowling-m...
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