The Silkworm: Cormoran Strike Book 2 - Softcover

Galbraith, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751549266 ISBN 13: 9780751549263

Publisher: Sphere, 2015

Synopsis

'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read' TIMES

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Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series

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.

*** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, LETHAL WHITE is out now! ***

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PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES:

'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' MARK BILLINGHAM

'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Unputdownable. . . Irresistible' SUNDAY TIMES

'Will keep you up all night' OBSERVER

'A thoroughly enjoyable classic' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS

About this title

Review:

An unputdownable tale of malice and murder in a toxic literary world . . . this almost preposterously compulsive page-turner is irresistible summer reading (Sunday Times)

Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read (The Times)

A damn good read ... It's a book to gulp down (Telegraph)

Huge credit is due to Galbraith in portraying [Strike] so vividly . . . Galbraith has pulled off a thoroughly enjoyable classic and I'm already looking forward to Strike's next outing (Peter James, Sunday Express)

A superb and polished thriller . . . an ingenious whodunit (Sunday Mirror)

Pacy, unputdownable . . . I can't wait for the next one (Daily Express)

An enticingly macabre whodunit ... taut and believable (Metro)

You are absolutely carried along ... Well written, exciting (Front Row, BBC Radio 4)

A great detective novel: sharp, immensely readable, warm-hearted but cool-headed ... populated with dozens of memorable characters (USA Today)

Enthralling, not only for its twists and turns, but for the fun of the teamwork (Time Magazine)

Book Description:

The second book in the highly acclaimed crime fiction series by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0751549266
• ISBN 13: 9780751549263
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592