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.