--- title: J.K. Rowling: Cormoran Strike Novels Will Outnumber Harry Potter Books description: The crime series could become the Harry Potter author's other legacy canonical: https://time.com/3013543/jk-rowling-cormoran-strike-novels/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-21T18:42:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:01:03.360Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: J.K. Rowling: Cormoran Strike Novels Will Outnumber Harry Potter Books og:description: The crime series could become the Harry Potter author's other legacy og:url: https://time.com/3013543/jk-rowling-cormoran-strike-novels/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde21d7796bf69a47/69868f36f983e7a86304dca8/ap569552639660.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: J.K. 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Rowling at an appearance to promote her book "The Casual Vacancy," at The David H. Koch Theater in New York, Oct. 16, 2012. J.K. Rowling at an appearance to promote her book "The Casual Vacancy," at The David H. Koch Theater in New York, Oct. 16, 2012.Dan Hallman—Invision/AP  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 21, 2014 6:42 PM UTC If you thought J.K. Rowling’s [recent short story about the _Harry Potter_](http://time.com/2965574/j-k-rowling-new-harry-potter-story/) gang was putting her on the path back to the wizarding world, guess again. The beloved author says she’ll likely write more than seven Cormoran Strike novels, outnumbering the series she’s best known for. Rowling has published two novels about the military-veteran-turned-private-eye , [_The Cuckoo’s Calling_](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/07/15/j-k-rowlings-secret-a-forensic-linguist-explains-how-he-figured-it-out/) and [_The Silkworm_](http://time.com/2894076/jk-rowling-the-silkworm-review/), under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. “I really love writing these books, so I don’t know that I’ve got an end point in mind,” Rowling said at a crime-writing festival, the BBC reports. “One of the things I absolutely love about this genre is that, unlike Harry, where there was an overarching story, a beginning and an end, you’re talking about discrete stories. So while a detective lives, you can keep giving him cases.” Rowling says she’s halfway through the third Cormoran Strike novel and has already begun planning the story of the fourth. The series is not her first post-Potter release — that would be 2012’s _The Casual Vacancy_ — but Rowling said at the festival that she wrote it under a fake name to see if she could “get a book published on the merits of the book.” \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-28381658)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3013543/jk-rowling-cormoran-strike-novels/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3013543/jk-rowling-cormoran-strike-novels/"},"headline":"J.K. Rowling to Write a Lot More Cormoran Strike Novels","datePublished":"2014-07-21T18:42:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:01:03.360Z","description":"The crime series could become the Harry Potter author's other legacy","url":"https://time.com/3013543/jk-rowling-cormoran-strike-novels/","keywords":["Books","J.K. 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