You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry - known to her friends as the Cuckoo - famously fell to her death a few months earlier. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today), the first novel in the brilliant series that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. 'Unputdownable.Published under a pseudonym, J. The Silkworm thoroughly engages as a crime novel.
'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH has written a second absorbing whodunit starring detective Corcmoran Strike to follow last years stealth hit, The Cuckoos Calling. 'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' MARK BILLINGHAM *** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! *** Ī 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.Īnd 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. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. 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.īut as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo 'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence.
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