Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestsellerThe Cuckoo's Calling.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives--meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.
When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...
A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, THE SILKWORM is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.
Robert Galbraithis a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter
series and
The Casual Vacancy. Cormoran Strike is back, and so is his resourceful sidekick, RobinEllacott, a gumshoe team that's on its way to becoming as celebrated forits mystery-solving skills as Nick and Nora Charles of Thin Man fame,and Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander (a.k.a. the girl with thedragon tattoo).
Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times 'The last line of
The Silkworm, which will lift the hearts of readers who have come to love its deeply sympathetic characters, offers the prospect of more of that joy both for her and for us.
Charles Finch,
USA Today(3.5/4 stars) l3
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