When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike.
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 ...
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..
If the novel were published it would ruin lives - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.
The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows.
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.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike
