What is the name of the private detective created by J.K. Rowling under the Galbraith name?

Cormoran Strike is the private detective created by J.K. Rowling under the Galbraith name.

Strike first appears in The Cuckoo’s Calling, published in 2013. He is a former Special Investigation Branch investigator who runs a private detective agency in London. His military service left him with a prosthetic lower leg, and his investigations often combine professional casework with difficult personal circumstances.

Robin Ellacott becomes his secretary and then an increasingly important investigative partner. Their evolving professional relationship is a central thread across the series. The books use conventional detective methods, interviews, evidence, and deductions rather than the supernatural setting associated with Harry Potter.

The character’s name can be confused with other famous fictional detectives, but Strike is specifically Rowling’s modern crime-fiction protagonist. The novels are credited to Robert Galbraith, the pseudonym Rowling adopted for this series, and later books develop both the cases and the detectives’ long-term partnership.