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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has secretly written a new novel under the pen name "Robert Galbraith," the Sunday Times has reported.
Rowling's latest book, the crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling, was released in April to positive reviews. The book tells the story of a war veteran-turned-private eye named Cormoran Strike, who is asked to investigate the mysterious death of a model who falls to her death from a balcony.
"I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience," Rowling said. "It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation, and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name." She described her editor at Little, Brown and Company, David Shelley, as "a true partner in crime."
The book's listing and author profile on Little Brown's website confirm that Galbraith is a pseudonym. The fictitious Galbraith's biography states that he is a former plain-clothes Royal Military Police investigator who left the military in 2003 to work in the civilian security industry.
The second book in the Galbraith series will be published next year.
Incidentally, J.K. Rowling is itself a pen name. The author was born Joanne Rowling, but took on the imaginary middle initial because her publisher "thought that young boys might be wary of a book written by a woman," according to her website.
