Sunday, June 22, 2014

The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith


The Silkworm
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Cormoran Strike is thrilled at all of the new business he's acquired after solving the Lula Landry murder. When Leonora Quine comes to him requesting his services in finding her missing husband, she believes that he is simply throwing another of his usual tantrums. He has left many times before, but isn't usually gone this long. Strike agrees to take the case and track him down. Once he starts investigating, he realizes that one of the last acts Quine accomplished before disappearing was to turn in his finished manuscript to his agent Elizabeth Tassel. Tassel tells Strike that at the time she read the manuscript she was sick with the flu, and admits she only scanned it before forwarding it to two publishers. What she realized later was that the book was libelous, and many who read it would be unhappy with how they were portrayed. She was unsuccessful at getting it back once it was sent out, and all of the people that were characterized negatively had a chance to read it. Once Strike, and his assistant Robin (love her) are able to put together enough of the clues, Strike finds Quine brutally murdered, and left in a macabre scene. As the list of suspects is whittled down, the circumstances become even more bizarre.



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