Author of the Harry Potter books published under the name of the detective

The famous author JK Rowling admitted that she is the author of the crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling, which went under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, said the publication Sunday Times.

The Cuckoo's Calling was released in April of this year. The novel describes the story of a private detective, a veteran of the war Cormorant Strike, which is investigating the death of a model.

The novel was released in the same publishing house, which published the previous book Rowling Random vacancy. At the moment, sold 1.5 million copies of the new book.

According to Rowling, she is very happy that she decided to release the investigator under a pseudonym, in addition, without prior advertising campaigns.

Previous novel writer casual vacancy was released in September of last year. Then Rowling did not use a pseudonym. During the first week in the United States has sold 375,000 copies of the novel, and in the UK - more than 120,000.

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