num_pages: 464
description: 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 daysas he has done beforeand 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 livesmeaning 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...
language: English
title: The Silkworm
publisher: Mulholland Books