J.K. Rowling’s detective Cormoran has the surname Strike.
Cormoran Strike is the central private investigator in the crime novels published under Rowling's pseudonym Robert Galbraith. He is a former Special Investigation Branch investigator who opens a private detective agency in London. The first novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, introduces him while he investigates the death of model Lula Landry.
Robin Ellacott becomes Strike's assistant and later a key investigative partner. Their professional relationship is one of the continuing threads across the series, which combines individual cases with longer character arcs.
Strike is his surname, while Galbraith is the author's pseudonym. These names are easy to mix up because both appear prominently on the books. Cormoran's first name is also distinctive: it comes from the giant Cormoran in Cornish folklore, connecting the character to Cornwall and his family background.