Rowling, bestselling author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy. Irresistible' Sunday TimesĪbout the Author: Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. 'The work of a master storyteller' Daily Telegraph 'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' Mark Billingham Ī 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. 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.

If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. 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.īut as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. 'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence.

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