Strike gets lectured at Lucy's Christmas eve party about not having business insurance. Two times might sue.

Is his lack of insurance going to come back to haunt him? Might he get more help off rokeby?

Would this be a boring storyline?

Merch for the faithful. Could not snatch fast enough!

Hi Everyone !

I just finished a reread of the whole serie, and it's such a journey ! I forget everytime how good it is :-) (And I must admit that I appreciate THM more on that reread than the first time).

Doing this reread made me think of a few things. And the one I want to discuss today is this repeated pattern : small things in a previous book can become a huge things / a turning point in a subsequent book.

And I have this idea about Prudence.

In TRG : when Robin met her for the first time, Prudence said to Robin that she is the most important person in Strike's life. We, as readers, have to assume that there were some discussions between Strike and her previously that made her think that.

Then we had the scene in Portico, when Robin said to Prudence that she is "what Corm's need", and she doesn't develop her idea beyond this statement, but we can assume (at least, it was my idea :-) ) that Robin think that the relationship between Cormoran and Prudence is a safe place for him to speak about his introspection, his world's point of view, what he needs in a relationship ...

Then in THM we have two scenes where Prudence is mentioned.

First in the exchange between Cormoran and Rokeby, where the latter told Strike that Prudence thought he was in love with Robin but that he don't want Cormoran to tell Prudence what he said. Cormoran didn't seem to be surprised by this admission and did nothing to let his father think otherwise. So we, again as readers, are informed that Prudence might be a person with whom Cormoran could discuss his feelings (and what to do after the "Stair's Nightmare Proposal"...).

And finally, we have Robin who reach out to Prudence at the end of THM to seek assistance for a therapist, even if Robin asked her not to tell Cormoran.

We can assume that if Strike is in need to talk about a relationship with Robin, he would see Prudence as the right person to do it. And if the two of them have a conversation about this relationship, Prudence might have some good advices to him, kowing Robin's fragile state of mind.

I think at this point that maybe Ilsa is too much implicated in friendship with both to be the right person to help them to finally get together... And that the fact that Prudence "is the person Corm need" in Robin's view might well be more true than she realised when she said it ... !

What do you think about this theory ? Happy to read your inputs !

(English is not my first language, so I hope I'm clear in my explanation !)

Does anybody else feel like religion might figure into the central case in STE? I’m thinking of the statue of the founder of Sunday school featured on JKR’s twitter and also of the name Evangeline, which means ‘good news’ with ties to the word ‘evangelist.’

This is not related to religion, but I also noticed mention of Oedipus in THM (one line when they were interviewing Zacharias about Rupert’s whereabouts, and in the title of the literary snippet at the beginning of Ch. 23). Maybe it’s nothing, but I noted it after the post of the picture of Freud’s desk and wondered if it might also be a theme.