The Silkworm -- Robert Galbraith

<p> </p><p><strong>Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller <em>The Cuckoo's Calling</em>.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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...</p><p>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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Robert Galbraith<br><b>Publisher:</b> Mulholland Books<br><b>Published:</b> 06/19/2014<br><b>Pages:</b> 466<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.43lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780316377478<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader