Nils de Jong and Mariam Torosyan – Owners of the North Grove Art Collective, the establishment where Edie, Josh, Tim, Katya and the rest of the people associated with The Ink Black Heart met. Charlotte Campbell Ross – Strike's neurotic and narcissistic ex-fiancee, a beautiful socialite and supermodel.

Within the game, two moderators appear to have a dossier of proof that Anomie and Edie are the same. Although he was stabbed in the neck by Anomie whilst attempting to protect Edie in Highgate Cemetery, leaving him paralysed, he lives and does not receive the same online abuse as Edie. The pair have solved a raft of grisly conundrums across the show's five seasons, including a cold case from the 1970s, all while resisting the urge to declare their undying love for one another.The police bumble about ineffectually; one staff member after another becomes the prime suspect; a colleague takes their own life, and our unnamed narrator has a relapse … Written with an Adam Kay-style sardonic wit and interspersed with descriptions of the real-life careers of murderous medics, it’s certainly engrossing, although crime aficionados might wish for a more focused, less picaresque plot. Darragh McManus from Irish Independent gave the book a positive review, praising it for "dozens of characters, multiple plotlines and, most crucially, lots and lots of things going on".

It is revealed that she saved Oliver Peach, the moderator Vilepechora in Drek's Game and member of the Halvening. The Ink Black Heart is not bad because it is long (my favorite book, the architecture compendium A Pattern Language, is a similar length). They share this with Josh Blay, the other co-creator of The Ink Black Heart and Edie's ex-boyfriend. Some offerings may be more in the golden age tradition than others, but there’s enough beady, tweedy Marple ingenuity here to satisfy the most fastidious Christie fan.I don’t know how much you enjoy reading online comments sections full of people who are mad about a thing you’ve never heard of, but if this is not something you enjoy, then good portions of The Ink Black Heart will not be to your taste. Robin Ellacott – Strike's former assistant, now business partner, trained in criminal investigation. Inigo Upcott – Katya's husband, a gifted musician forced to retire due to myalgic encephalomyelitis. Shortly afterwards, Edie is found murdered in Highgate Cemetery in north London, with her collaborator and former boyfriend lying seriously wounded nearby. Rowling denied the claims that the book was inspired by her own controversies, stating, "I had written the book before certain things happened to me online".