London is the main setting for most of J.K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike detective series.
The books follow private detective Cormoran Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott as they investigate cases in and around the British capital. Strike’s office is located on Denmark Street, an area historically associated with music shops and the British music industry. The city’s streets, neighborhoods, offices, and transport network are important parts of the series’ atmosphere.
The series is published under Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Its London setting distinguishes it from the rural and international locations used in some individual investigations, but London remains the detectives’ professional base.
Readers may associate Rowling mainly with the fictional locations of the Harry Potter books, such as Hogwarts and Diagon Alley. The Strike novels instead use recognizable modern British locations, with London functioning as both backdrop and source of investigative detail.