The Silkworm is second book by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling) featuring private detective Cormoran Strike. In this story a novelist Owen Quine has gone missing and his wife calls Strike in to find him. It seems that the novelist's completed manuscript paints poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows and people are trying to silence him.
When the author is found brutally murdered it turns out that his death has been made to replicate the ending of his book. Who has murdered him? His publisher, editor, wife, girlfriend or an author he used to be friends with? Strike has to find out to save his client. It leads him into all sorts of situations and every person he meets has their own opinion of Quine the author and Quine man. Meanwhile Strike is struggling with his injured knee (he wears a prosthesis as a result of an accident in Afghanistan) due to a fall and he is still haunted by his relationship with Charlotte. His assistant Robin also wants to be more than a secretary and is concerned that Strike is talking about getting in some help to deal with the amount of work he has.
Strike is a complicated man with a complicated private life. He is a maverick - don't we all love those? This book fleshes out more of the man but you don't have to have read the first book to get into this one. There is also a good deal of humour and I enjoy the twists and turns of these books. I look forward to reading the next in the series.
When the author is found brutally murdered it turns out that his death has been made to replicate the ending of his book. Who has murdered him? His publisher, editor, wife, girlfriend or an author he used to be friends with? Strike has to find out to save his client. It leads him into all sorts of situations and every person he meets has their own opinion of Quine the author and Quine man. Meanwhile Strike is struggling with his injured knee (he wears a prosthesis as a result of an accident in Afghanistan) due to a fall and he is still haunted by his relationship with Charlotte. His assistant Robin also wants to be more than a secretary and is concerned that Strike is talking about getting in some help to deal with the amount of work he has.
Strike is a complicated man with a complicated private life. He is a maverick - don't we all love those? This book fleshes out more of the man but you don't have to have read the first book to get into this one. There is also a good deal of humour and I enjoy the twists and turns of these books. I look forward to reading the next in the series.
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