The Silkworm

In this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, The New York Times Book Review), private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer -- and a sinister killer bent on destruction.

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Mulholland Books
Published: 06/19/2014
ISBN: 9780316206877
Pages: 455
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d
Award: Shamus Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2014 pg. 94
Library Journal 03/15/2014 pg. 94
Entertainment Weekly 05/30/2014 pg. 84
People Weekly 06/09/2014 pg. 41
Entertainment Weekly 06/27/2014 pg. 66
People Weekly 06/30/2014 pg. 46
Publishers Weekly 06/23/2014
New York Times Book Review 06/29/2014 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2014
Entertainment Weekly 07/04/2014 pg. 9
New York Times Book Review 07/06/2014 pg. 22
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2014 pg. 19

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 171692 / Silkworm
Reading Level: 6.9 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 25