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And then he came on the screen (playing Billy Knight) And it was Eddie!

What follows is live footage of me spotting Eddie Munson in Cormoran Strike:

I got thinking about Kilburn this week because I was due to be in London doing Strike things, Kilburn keeps cropping up in the books and I have never been there.

I know of four connections but there might be more:

Rochelle Onifade's aunt lives there (The Cuckoo's Calling),

Robin pays a deposit on a room in a shared house there (Lethal White),

Pat Chauncey lives there (The Ink Black Heart) and

In the TV adaptation of The Ink Black Heart, Robin's flat is there and not really in Walthamstow (thanks to @ludicrousmoniker for this!)

Rochelle's funeral might have been in Kilburn but I don't think we know enough about that to be sure. The Cuckoo's Calling mentions a North London cemetery, which could be Paddington Old Cemetery, but equally could be Hendon or Golders Green. The only other clue is that the mourners walk from the funeral service to the wake at the Red Lion pub. Of course, it might have been a fictional Red Lion, but assuming it was real just for fun, I haven't found a good candidate yet; there was a Red Lion pub in Kilburn in walking distance (although not easy walking distance) but it seems it had changed its name by 2007. My jury is still out, but I am planning to stroll around the other cemeteries to see if they are a better fit.

The only certain book location is Kilburn High Road, where Strike, having dropped Pat home, goes to buy some essentials after the office is bombed in The Ink Black Heart. Here it is in all its glory.

This is Robin's TV flat, I think. It's right by the beautiful Kilburn Park tube station and some interesting buildings, of which more to come.

Part 2 ...

Summary When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott — once his assistant, now a partner in the agency — set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside.

They changed a lot from this book for the show. The almost kiss happens at the hospital, the whole side plot of the hospital is not in the show. Robin's panic attack in the car is because Winn calls her, not Jimmy...