The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

by Robert Galbraith

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. 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. 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.

• ISBN10: 0316206873
• ISBN13: 9780316206877
• Publish Date: 19 June 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Little, Brown & Company
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 464
• Language: English

Reviews

[readingwithbecs]

Rowling really knows how to write a mystery! It took me some time to get into this one and to really care about the case, but when I hit the mid-point of the book I was really into it! I had abesolutely no idea who the killer was, and suspected EVERYONE. But in the end, I had not figured out the true killer, and not really suspected the person much during the book. But of course when it was revealed, there was multipel small hints trough out the book, which pointed to the person. I just did not catch them.
When Strike figured out who the killer was, it was so frusterating, that Rowling kept reminding us, that Strike had it figured out, but we - the readers - was not going to be told for quite some time. As frustration as it was, it was one of the things that kept me on my toes to get the book finished, and what was contributing to making it a fantastic read.
I felt disapointed with the small amount of perspective we got from Robin - I felt it was much lesser than it was in the first book. But we got more from her at the end of the book.

[sarahjay]

edit 9/20/20

transphobes stop liking these old ass reviews I don't support you or JKR thanks

[KitsuneBae]

SPOILER ALERT!

Love this! Female villains for the win!