Listen to Robert discuss Robin’s personal and professional challenges, and how these unfold in The Running Grave.
Transcript
When we meet Robin in this book she’s now in a stable, happy relationship with her CID officer, Ryan Murphy, which Strike of course hates. So she’s in a very different place emotionally and yet she still wants to go undercover which potentially means a separation of week or months, because she, like Strike, is putting the job first.
And that, in itself probably represents the single biggest, not change exactly but over the course of these seven books we’ve seen Robin turn into someone who prioritises investigation over her private life. That was something she really struggled with in the first couple of years with the agency because she had a very unsupportive partner. But now she’s really quite clear, this is what I am, this is what I do. And, you know, if you want to be with me you will accept that. I think we see her in this book absolutely come into her own. Her resourcefulness and her resilience are exemplary; I certainly couldn’t do what she did. But yeah, I think she does an amazing job in this book.
