Here are many of the real-life locations featured throughout the pages of The Ink Black Heart, the sixth novel in the Strike series. Click on each location for more info.
| | The Angel – Strike tries this pub but it doesn’t allow mobile phones (Ch 68) |
| Annabel’s – The club where Strike and Midge conduct surveillance on Legs on New Year’s Eve (Ch 3) | |
| The Arts Club – Where Strike and Robin meet Allan Yeoman, Richard Edgar, Grant Ledwell and Heather Ledwell (Ch 18) | |
| Battledean Road – Where Grant and Heather Ledwell live (Ch 103 and 104) | |
| Blackhorse Road and Bonner’s Fish Bar – Where Robin’s new flat is located, and the chippy where Strike and Robin get fish and chips from. | |
| Bob Bob Ricard – Where Robin and Ilsa meet for dinner and champagne (Ch 28) | |
| The Botanist, Sloane Square – A restaurant frequented by Fingers (Ch 24 and 54) | |
| British Museum – Strike tails Groomer here (Ch 25) | |
| Cambridge – Where Strike and Robin go to look for Dr Vikas (Ch 84) | |
| The Cambridge (pub) – Where Strike goes for a drink and to go on Drek’s Game (Ch 68) | |
| Denmark Street – Where Strike and Robin’s office is located. | |
| Eccleston Square, Pimlico – Where Madeline lives. | |
| ExCeL and Custom House Station – Where the Comic Con is held (Ch 54 to 56) | |
| Fischer’s – The restaurant where Robin watches Gus Upcott (Ch 50) | |
| The Flask – Where Strike interviews Phillip Ormond (Ch 35 to 37) | |
| The Gatehouse – Where Robin and Pez go for a drink (Ch 67) | |
| Gerrard’s Corner – Where Strike and Robin meet for a catch-up (Ch 38) | |
| Goodge Street Station – Strike follows Montgomery into this station (Ch 21) | |
| The Gun, Docklands – Where Strike meets Grant Ledwell for an ‘update’ (Ch 64) | |
| Hampstead Heath and Millfield Lane – Where Edie’s phone is turned off after her murder and where Josh Blay has his flat | |
| Highgate Cemetery – Where Edie Ledwell is murdered and where The Ink Black Heart cartoon and Drek’s Game are set. | |
| Junction Road and Brookside Lane – Where Strike follows a girl from the Red Lion and Sun (Ch 22, 40, 68 and 100) | |
| Kazan – Where Strike and Madeline go for dinner (Ch 50) | |
| King’s Lynn – Where Kea Niven lives with her mother. | |
| Knaresborough – Where Zoe Haigh is from. | |
| | Lisburne Road – Where the Upcott family live. |
| Lismore Circus – Where Wally Cardew lives. | |
| Marine Hotel – Where Strike and Robin stay overnight in Whitstable (Ch 79 to 82) | |
| | Meanwood Park, Leeds – Where Robin meets one of the Drek’s Game moderators (Ch 82) |
| New Scotland Yard – HQ for the Met police, where Strike and Robin talk to DCI Murphy and Angela Darwish (Ch 89) | |
| Nightjar – The restaurant where Strike and Madeleine have their sixth date (Ch 8) | |
| North Grove – Where the fictitious Art Collective is located. | |
| Opium, Chinatown – Where Strike meets with Dev (Ch 27) | |
| Qube – Where Robin interviews Tim Ashcroft (Ch 45) | |
| The Red Lion and Sun – Where Strike and Barclay conduct surveillance on Wally, Tim, Seb, Nils and Bram (Ch 21) | |
| Richoux – A tearoom where Strike reads The Times newspaper (Ch 15) | |
| The Ritz – Where Strike and Robin celebrate her 30th birthday (Ch 1) | |
| Royal Spinal Cord Injury Centre – Where Josh Blay is admitted to (Ch 62). | |
| Saucy Sausage on Lower Addiscombe Rd, Croydon – Where Robin sits to watch Yasmin Weatherhead’s house (Ch 41) | |
| Ship and Shovell – Where Strike watches Cardew and a mysterious tattooed man (Ch 42) | |
| South Audley Street – Where the agency’s billionaire client’s house is located. | |
| Starbucks and Boots, Charing Cross Road – Robin meets Strike and Pat in this Starbucks (Ch 71) | |
| St Stephen’s Tavern – Strike and Robin eat veggie burgers after they’ve visited New Scotland Yard (Ch 90) | |
| The Tottenham – Strike and Robin’s favourite pub near the office (Ch 19 and 71) | |
| Victoria Station – Station near Madeline Courson-Miles’ house (Ch 93) | |
| Whitehall Gardens – Where Strike watches Cardew film a YouTube video (Ch 41 and 42) | |
| Whitstable – Strike and Robin follow the Upcotts here (Ch 76 to 80) | |
| William Morris Gallery – Where Robin tails Groomer and Legs (Ch 16) | |
| Z Hotel– Where Robin and Strike stay and where they hold an agency meeting. | |
| Mentioned Locations – Other locations that are mentioned or barely seen. |
