The Hallmarked Man (2025)

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作者: 乔安妮·凯瑟琳·罗琳
首版: 2025 年
国家/地区: 英国
Open Library: 3 个版本

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The Hallmarked Man is a crime fiction novel written by the British author J. K. Rowling, and published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The eighth novel in the Cormoran Strike detective series, it follows The Running Grave. As with previous books in the series, it features the protagonists Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott solving a murder. Themes explored in the plot involve Freemasonry, human trafficking, the silver antiques trade, corruption in the media, secrecy surrounding the military and intelligence services, mental health issues and the interpersonal relationship between the protagonists.

The book was released on 2 September 2025 and received a mixed reception from the press and public. It debuted at the top of the bestseller lists in both the US and UK.

Plot

Decima Mullins hires the agency to investigate the body of "William Wright" found in the vault of Ramsay Silver. Identification is difficult due to mutilation and the outdated security system. The police say that Wright was Jason Knowles, a convicted robber. Mullins thinks Wright was her lover, Rupert Fleetwood. Shanker states that Wright was neither man, that a freemason is behind the execution, and that Knowles was sent to "Barnaby's". Information from Ryan Murphy reveals that Niall Semple and Tyler Powell also fit the profile. A letter encoded with a pigpen cipher says that Wright was "Dick DeLion". Fleetwood's social circle believes he is in New York. The agency receives threatening calls, and Robin is attacked and threatened in Harrods by a masked assailant.

Robin discovers the 1998 murders in Belgium of Reata Lindvall and her daughter Jolanda. The office door is defaced with a letter "G" from the Square and Compasses. A music producer, Calvin Osgood, has his identity stolen. Sapphire Neagle is the only connection between him and the impostor "Oz", whom Wright had emailed. Oz ransacked Wright's apartment of anything personally identifiable with Sofia Medina, a student found dead on North Wessex Downs. Jade Semple tells Strike that her husband became obsessed with Freemasonry after a traumatic brain injury, and that Ralph Lawrence of MI5 took the note he left behind. The stalker threatens Robin again and drops a Masonic dagger. Lawrence warns against investigating Semple, and places Rena Liddell in a psychiatric hold before Strike can interview her.

Strike runs into Nina Lascelles, who tells Dominic Culpepper that Kim Cochran took photos of his wife having an affair. Culpepper writes articles portraying Strike as an abusive womaniser who coerced an escort into sex. Strike reaches out to his father, Jonny Rokeby, whose lawyers quash a false story about Strike fathering Bijou Watkins' daughter. Strike discovers that the encoded letter was from Fiona Freeman, who thinks De Leon was executed by a freemason who uses porn actors and unsuspecting laypeople to fulfil his fetishes. Strike believes that the freemason is Oliver Branfoot, who is colluding with Culpepper and is part of the same Masonic lodge as Malcom Truman, the DCI who investigated the vault case. De Leon is found alive on Sark. "Barnaby's" is deduced to be a scrap yard where bodies are destroyed in the car compactor. Jim Todd, Ramsay Silver's cleaner, is killed by Oz along with his mother. Kim obtains photos that show the body marked with the Cross of Salem.

Dilys Powell and Ian Griffiths explain that Tyler left Ironbridge due to a scandal involving a car crash. Griffiths' daughter Chloe explains that Tyler was aggressive and possessive with women. Faber Whitehead voices his suspicions of Ian Griffiths. Robin pepper-sprays the assailant who is arrested and identified as Wade King. Hussein Mohamed mentions seeing dumbbells with the logo of Wolverhampton Wanderers, which Powell supported. Strike deduces that Griffiths is Oz and runs a trafficking ring. He killed Lindvall and passed off Jolanda as Chloe. When Powell tried to rescue Chloe, Todd got him a job at Ramsay Silver and lured him to the vault, where Griffiths murdered him. Medina aided Griffiths at both Ramsay Silver and Powell's apartment, after which she was killed. Strike, Barclay and Wardle subdue the ring at Griffiths' house and discover Sapphire chained in the basement. It is revealed that Griffiths was impersonating Chloe, who was murdered and buried in the basement after Griffiths got her pregnant.

Robin and Midge find the stolen silver behind a wall at Ramsay Silver. Kim works with Farah Navabi and Branfoot to foil Strike's investigation, but becomes the subject of one of Branfoot's sex tapes. Fergus Robertson's piece in The Sunday Telegraph exposes Branfoot, and Culpepper is fired for fabricating articles. Information from Tara Jenson helps Robin find Fleetwood in Sardinia. He reveals that Decima is his half-sister via Dino Longcaster's affair with Fleetwood's mother, and Robin convinces him to reconcile. Using information from Rena Liddell, Semple's body is found where he committed suicide in Regent's Canal. At the funeral, Ralph Lawrence reveals the circumstances of Ben Liddell's execution by Daesh. Spurred by Murphy's impending proposal, Strike confesses his feelings to Robin.