THE SILKWORM
Robert Galbraith
TPB $39.99, Ebook $24.99
Published on 19th June 2014
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private
detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he 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 realises. The novelist has just completed a
manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If
the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who
might want to silence him.
And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it
becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer,
a killer unlike any he 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.
For The Cuckoo’s Calling:
‘The most
engaging British private detective to emerge so far this year…
it marks the
start of a fine crime career’
Daily
Mail
‘a sharply contemporary
novel full of old-fashioned virtues… wonderfully fresh and funny’
Daily
Telegraph
‘sparkling
dialogue and a convincing portrayal of the emptiness of wealth and glamour’
The
Times
‘an
engrossing and well-crafted who-dunnit. Unsurprisingly excellent’
Sunday
Mirror
‘An
accomplished piece that thoroughly deserves its retrospective success’
Financial
Times
‘The
Cuckoo's Calling reminds me why I fell in love with crime fiction in the
first place’
Val
McDermid
‘One of the
most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years’
Mark
Billingham
Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K.
Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy.
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