The Silkworm

THE SILKWORM is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott. 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 realizes. 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 murder...