The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

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The Silkworm

(#2 - Cormoran Strike)

June 19, 2014 / 455 pages / Fiction

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Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The 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.

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<b>Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller <i>The Cuckoo's Calling</i>.</b><br /><br /><div>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.</div><div><br /></div><div>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.</div><div><br /></div><div>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...</div><div><br /></div><div>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.</div>

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This is the second Cormoran Strike novel and it is a good follow up to the first. It's well written and addictive. The solution to the case is surprising, but sensible.

Grade: A / kadean19

/ Aug 20, 2015

The second book in the Cormoran Strike series begins with the wife of a not-well-liked author asking Strike to find her missing husband. Strike, with help from his assistant, Robin, relies largely on interviewing anyone who may know anything about Owen Quine who had recently written an odd and disturbing book in which he lambasted many of his writing and publishing colleagues. Locating the missing man launches a gruesome murder investigation. Galbraith uses a wide range of vivid vocabulary

Grade: B / bookappeal / Oct 25, 2015

Not as good as the first of the Cormoran series.

Grade: C / vlucia / May 5, 2015

Well written sequal to "The Cuckoo's Calling" from JK Rowling. Second book in the Cormoran Strike Series.

Grade: B / VonBrandtner

/ Aug 20, 2016

I bought "The Silkworm" after finishing "The Cuckoo's Calling" in 2014. Yes, it took me six years to pick up the second book of the Cormoran Strike series. For me, this story is becoming a little bit grotesque, and the truth I knew who the murder was, but didn't realize had this person committed the crime. I like the relationship between Cormoran and Robin and the way they work and communicate. The reason I deducted a star from my review is because of the pacing of the plot. There were times I

Grade: B / Avigail / Oct 4, 2020

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