The Silkworm (Paperback)  | Released: 29 Jan 2015

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himselffor 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 thatthere is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits ofalmost 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 whenQuine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, akiller unlike any he has encountered before . . .A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in thehighly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott. About the AuthorRobert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, The Casual Vacancy and the first Cormoran Strike novel, The Cuckoo's Calling.