I've listened to all of the Cormoran Strike books, and this is by far the least successful. It's waaaay too long for one thing, partly because of the endless amount of inane online gaming and chat room babble. Galbraith accurately captures the crudeness and low intellect of the online conversations, but precisely because the level of those conversations is so crude and frankly stupid, and there are so many of them, it gives the book an overall tiresome and seedy feel...a lot like actually being on a social media or gaming site. ;-)

The overall premise is interesting. The creator of an online cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, which others take and develop into an online game and still others want to make into a movie, is killed. Pretty much all of the players in the game are suspects, and Strike and Robin slog through the list, trying to identify the killer. Much of their investigation involves being online as players in the game themselves, and it just gets tedious. After a while, I felt enormous relief every time they went offline to rejoin real life.