The Silkworm (MP3 CD)

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The Silkworm (MP3 CD)

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I love J.K. Rowling. Well, yes Harry Potter. But. Her ex-Hogwarts work is first rate. In this, the second of a series of British murder mysteries, she delivers the goods with a solid punch. Any reader of whodunits will find this a satisfying compelling thriller of an experience.

Cormoran Strike (named after the giant that Jack killed) is a character you have to love. Crippled, haunted, lovelorn, driven and chained to a self-imposed code of ethics that is harshly strict, he begs the reader to want to back him up, to accompany him to dangerous meetings, to defend him against unwarranted skepticism by the police and the frequent social disaffection elicited by his rough appearance. As a character, he puts me in mind of the famous noir detective Sam Spade. He has strong morals deployed in a mileu most of us don't inhabit.

Grisly murder, British publishing and its attendant eccentrics, an attractive but unavailable associate, a developmentally challenged teen, a naive widow, a painful prosthesis where his lower leg used to be: these are some, only some of what Strike has to deal with to get the job done. Add to this the perception among the police that he's a glory hound due to his solving a high-profile murder at which they had failed and a personal life that's a minefield of toxic relationships and the unfortunate illegitemacy that his rockstar father bequeathed to him and you have a helluva hill to climb, if you're Cormoran Strike.

Forget Harry P. Here Galbraith/Rowling has moved into completely adult realms with a bloody good tale. The writing is superb, elegant even, and flows briskly with no doldrums. Try it: you'll like it.

— Eric has been a fixture at Tattered Cover for decades and he has always been an insatiable reader

Private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer -- and a sinister killer bent on destruction -- in this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, New York Times Book Review) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike.

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, he discovers that Quine's disappearance is no coincidence. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published, it would ruin lives -- meaning that almost everyone in his life would have motives to silence him.

When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, Strike must race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . .

A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in J. K. Rowling's highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.


Product Details ISBN: 9781478929659
ISBN-10: 1478929650
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Publication Date: June 19th, 2014
Language: English
Series: Cormoran Strike Novels