silkworm

Owen Quine, the author, disappeared overnight under very mysterious circumstances. Feeling both distraught and jealous, his wife consults private detective Cormoran Strike. But as Strike investigates, he realizes that the author's disappearance is not a passing whim and has not been overlooked. Prior to his disappearance, Quine had completed the manuscript of his latest novel; a scandalous plot whose venomous pen wounds and defames his acquaintances, which raises concern among many prominent figures... Strike's suspicions are confirmed when he discovers Quine's body in an abandoned house, hideously disfigured. He was murdered in a way that left an unclear crime scene with many suspects, and distorted evidence scattered like puzzling pieces. Which of the notorious criminals went so far as to silence Quine to death? He was a genius, a master of literary torture; the worst and most dangerous kind of person a detective could encounter... A precise detective masterpiece that feeds reading addiction and the passion for anticipation, with insane surprises at every turn and page. "The Silkworm" is the second novel in the series of adventures of detective Cormoran Strike and his beautiful and sharp young assistant, Robin Ellacott.