The Silkworm: Cormoran Strike Book 2 (Cormoran Strike 2)

'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read' TIMES<br/>-----<br/>Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series<br/>When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. 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.<br/>But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. 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 - so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him.<br/>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 . . .<br/>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.<br/>*** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, LETHAL WHITE is out now! ***<br/>-----<br/>PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES:<br/>'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' MARK BILLINGHAM<br/>'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH<br/>'Unputdownable. . . Irresistible' SUNDAY TIMES<br/>'Will keep you up all night' OBSERVER<br/>'A thoroughly enjoyable classic' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS