Sleuth or dare...

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger return for a dangerous new case of political blackmail

- CAREN CLARK, JUDY EWENS, RICHARD MCCLURE

The course of true love certainly hasn’t run smooth for private investigators Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott since BBC1’s gripping crime drama Strike debuted in 2017.

Based on the novels by JK Rowling, written under her pen name Robert Galbraith, the series has seen the pair try to ignore their powerful chemistry as they’ve investigated a range of gritty cases.

WILL THEY, WON’T THEY?

Now, in a new four-part series, Strike – Lethal White, adapted from the fourth novel, hopes of romance appear dashed. Intrepid Robin (Holliday Grainger) has married childhood sweetheart Matt (Kerr Logan) and dishevelled but shrewd Strike (Tom Burke) has a new girlfriend Lorelei (Natalie Gumede), while his past love Charlotte (Natasha O’Keeffe) also resurfaces. But is there still a glimmer of magnetism between Strike and Robin?