The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) by Robert Galbraith
Pages: 464
Publication Date June 19, 2014
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Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling.
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, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives—meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.
When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before...
The Silkworm is much grittier than The Cuckoo’s Calling, literally ripping the guts out of you. I feel that with the first book in the Cormoron Strike series J.K. Rowling was trying too hard to breakout of Hogwarts. WithThe Silkworm, she has found her groove. Coromoran and Robin are well sketched out and, like Severus Snape, I believe she has a very specific story etched out for them.
I really thought I had this mystery figured out. I thought I was so clever, but like Professor Snape, not all is as it seemed. I really enjoyed the steady pacing and careful dropping of breadcrumbs.
Cormoran was more developed in this installment, with his annoying ex Charlotte, gone I felt that the reader saw a more vulnerable side of him which is rare in murder mysteries. I also liked getting to know Robin better, plus, I loved that she will be training to become a partner and equal to Cormoran.
I listened to The Cuckoo’s Calling and I wished I had done the same with The Silkworm I really enjoyed Robert Glenister’s narration. The books are a little long, a little too long if you ask me and the narrator really helped the story move along and kept me engaged.
Overall, I think The Silkworm held its own and can see myself continuing the series.
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