Strike, JK Rowling TV detective series, filmed in Falmouth

Film crews have taken over Prince of Wales Pier, filming in the Pier Cafe, as well as The Palacio Lounge on The Moor.

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger outside the Palacio Lounge. Pictures courtesy of StrikeFans.com

Filming on Prince of Wales pier. Picture Mo Misselbrook

Mo Misselbrook posted on Facebook: "I was just having a coffee at the Pier cafe and a lot of people turned up with cameras and other equipment. I was told that they are filming a new BBC detective series."

Filming in the Pier Cafe. Picture courtesy of StrikeFans.com

When the Packet went down to the scene this afternoon the crew was filming on the water on the St Mawes Ferry.

The production has already filmed across the water in the The Victory Inn in St Mawes and in Truro at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, they are also said to have been up at the Recreation Ground in Falmouth.

Filming on St Mawe Ferry. Pictures courtesy of StrikeFans.com

The BBC TV series is set in Cornwall as the main character Strike has Cornish connections having been brought up here and this is the first time it has been filmed in Falmouth.

The series, the fifth, is called Troubled Blood and stars Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike and Holliday Grainger as his business partner Robin Ellacott. Both actors have been spotted in Falmouth filming their roles.

Filming yesterday in St Mawes. Pictures courtesy of StrikeFans.com

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JK Rowling wrote the detective series under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith which became highly popular.

The programme consists of four 60 minute episodes. A broadcast date has not yet been set.

Tom Burke in St Mawes. Pictures courtesy of StrikeFans.com

A synopsis of the series on the Robert Galbraith website reads: "Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough – who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974.

"Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one forty years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on. And Robin herself is also juggling a messy divorce and unwanted male attention, as well as battling her own feelings about Strike.

"As Strike and Robin investigate Margot’s disappearance, they come up against a fiendishly complex case with leads that include tarot cards, a psychopathic serial killer and witnesses who cannot all be trusted. And they learn that even cases decades old can prove to be deadly . . .