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. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before. If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and. tags: fancourt, humour, writers-on-writing. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. The whole worlds writing novels, but nobodys reading them. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. 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. This is another paragraph Book Description: When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. Mint condition.Sphere,2014.First UK paperback edition-first impression.Large format paperback(two very small nicks on the edges of the cover) in mint condition.The book is new with a very small crease on the edges of the book. Some things never change and it’s likely that millions of Robert Galbraith readers out there will be pleased that their hero detective still cuts a familiar figure.Paperback. Keeping erratic hours, living in his office and ruminating about his famous, but distant father, Strike is the same old sad-sack detective readers met in The Cuckoo’s Calling. The war veteran turned detective is still battling the same old demons in the opening chapters of The Silkworm.
Rowling herself has been a vocal critic of the British tabloids and their invasive tactics, so the dig is almost certainly calculated.
Though it’s brief, the exchange was no doubt a pointed reference to the real-life trial that’s currently underway in Britain, where former employees of the News of the World tabloid are accused of engaging in phone-hacking in order to get scoops. The honorable Strike counters that it’s “illegal” to hack phones or encourage others to do so. “All the other private dicks I use spend their time hacking phone messages,” he says to the detective with suspicion. In the first chapter of The Silkworm, a journalist suspects Strike of underhanded techniques to gain information.
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