The Silkworm

'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read' TIMES<p></p><p></p>-----<p></p><p></p>Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series<p></p><p></p>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.<p></p><p></p>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.<p></p><p></p>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 . . .<p></p><p></p>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.<p></p><p></p>-----<p></p><p></p>PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES: <p></p><p></p>'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' MARK BILLINGHAM<p></p><p></p>'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH<p></p><p></p>'Unputdownable. . . Irresistible' SUNDAY TIMES<p></p><p></p>'Will keep you up all night' OBSERVER<p></p><p></p>'A thoroughly enjoyable classic' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS