The
Silkworm by J.K. Rowling, Robert Galbraith
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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
Review-
A new novel by J K
Rowling creates a lot of hype and excitement and rightfully so. When I read the
first book in Cormoran Series- The Cuckoo’s Calling I was totally
captivated by the tall, bulky, limping detective with his grouchy attitude and
his enthusiastic and pretty assistant, Robin. They make an unusual pair ( not
romantically, though I wouldn’t be too surprised if they have a link-up in the
following series).
The plot is well
devised and Rowling keeps the guessing game of the killer’s identity wrapped in
the reader’s curiosity till the very end of the book. The story revolves around
the disappearance of an author Owen Quine who has written a controversial book-
Bombyx Mori, portraying several big names in the publishing industry in not so
very good light. That puts a few people under the suspects list with a
very plausible motive. Strike comes into picture when Quine’s wife employs him
to find her husband but very soon Cormoran finds himself entangled in the
intriguing case.
A complex plot
and a host of characters who have a very good motive to kill Quine and at the
center of the story, a book that is full of perverse sex and arcane symbolism-
it doesn’t get better than this. The book is unputdownable right from the very
first page. I found it better than the first book The Cuckoo’s Calling and it
does not disappoint Rowling’s fan. I would have given it all 5 stars if not for
my feeling that there were some details that went unexplained in the end. I
cannot explain much without revealing the plot and I don’t want to spoil the
fun. Go ahead and read it, you won’t regret it.
I am eagerly
awaiting the next Cormoran Strike novel.
Rating- 4.5
The cover is impressive, and half the battle is won there :-)
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