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The Silkworm

byJ. K. Rowling

Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Psychological Thrillers Detective Fiction

Who is this book for? Readers who enjoy crime novels, detective fiction, and psychological thrillers.

Topics Missing personsPrivate investigatorMurder mysteryPoisonous manuscriptRuthless killerComplex investigationBetrayalLiterary worldDark secretsRace against timeInvestigationMurderMissing Persons

MoodSuspenseful

HumorOccasional Humor

ViolenceModerate

Now a major BBC drama 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 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. This is the acclaimed second crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The novels in the series so far are, in order: Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil and 2018's Lethal White.

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22/01/2015

Pages

592

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780751549263

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