We’ve seen Strike’s character develop throughout the series. How does his character arc continue in The Running Grave?
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A kind of a reckoning has come for Strike I think in this book. He’s finally, finally trying to look after himself physically a bit more. At the end of the previous book he was physically in a very bad state. Out of neglect of himself. So he’s tried to get a handle on this. He’s lost a bit of weight, he’s vaping instead of smoking, he’s making an effort. But of course there’s another reckoning has happened which is that he’s finally, and I am sure the readers will roll their eyes that it took him so long, he’s acknowledged to himself finally what he really feels for Robin. So he’s just past 40, often a time, I think, when people start to take stock of their lives. You’re no longer in the first flush of youth and so that the place he is in his life at the moment.
He’s come to admit to himself that certain things have to change. And I can’t say any more than that because it would give away too much.
