Robert Galbraith
Hardcover | Pages: 456 pages Rating: 4.04 | 204624 Users | 16641 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Silkworm |
| ISBN: | 0316206873 (ISBN13: 9780316206877) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://www.mulhollandbooks.com/titles/robert-galbraith/the-silkworm/9780316206877/ |
| Series: | Cormoran Strike #2 |
| Characters: | Cormoran Strike, Robin Ellacott, Matthew Cunliffe, Owen Quine, Leonora Quine, Christian Fischer, Liz Tassel, Daniel Chard, Michael Fancourt, Jerry Waldegrave, Jonny Rokeby, Charlotte Campbell, Detective Inspector Richard Anstis, Alexander Rokeby, Catherine Kent, Philip Midgely, Orlando Quine, Dominic Culpepper |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Audie Award for Mystery (2015), Specsavers National Book Award Nominee for Crime/Thriller Book of the Year (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (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...
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| Title | : | The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2) |
| Author | : | Robert Galbraith |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First North American Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 456 pages |
| Published | : | June 24th 2014 by Mulholland Books / Little, Brown and Company (first published June 19th 2014) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Audiobook. Mystery Thriller. Detective |
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Reading J.K. Rowlings writing for adult audiences reminds me irresistibly of bumping into grade-school teachers on the street. Theres the obvious comparison, of course, which is not having to pretend that sex and crass language dont exist anymore, realizing your former educator is an actual human being, an experience, for some, that can feel surreal. If youre really lucky, of course, you make friends with your old teacher, have coffee together. You start to view them complexly. Now that youveI enjoyed this more that The Cuckoo's Calling. I think that Galbraith/Rowling is getting better at this type of writing. I remember reading somewhere that it was easy to tell that it was Rowling because her style came through - but I cannot see any similarities between this and Harry Potter at all.I will say, though, that the first two Strike books use a similar formula. All the players are laid out at the beginning and then Strike goes through meeting with each of them throughout the book. In
2.5 stars - SpoilersDisappointing, it wasn't awful but it wasn't good either. It was all rather predictable and generic, I wouldn't have minded the cliches and obviousness of it all if the main characters (Strike and Robin) had stood out in some way. Sadly, they didn't. I didn't care about either of them I actually kind of hated both. -I wasn't a fan of the writing, there were a number of times where I came across sentences that didn't flow very well. Some of the more 'difficult' words seemed to
I love a good detective story and Galbraith really delivered on this one. Either she is a master of the red herring or I am an incurably gullible old sod because I was firmly convinced I knew who it was for two thirds of the book, only to have it turn out to be someone I never even considered suspecting. There were several twists that were surprising and intriguing. She plays with the concept of the manor house mystery by staging a convenient party for all of the suspects to attend where the
The Silkworm is the tenth J.K. Rowling novel Ive read. I believe that after ten often gargantuan novels I can make fairly accurate generalizations about her writing. And it saddens me to say that she keeps making the same mistakes.Most glaring is her treatment of female characters. In the Cormoran Strike mystery series, we have another female character of much greater intrigue shunted to the side in favor of a male protagonist, aka Hermione Granger Syndrome. Robin is Strikes young personal
Welcome back to 12 Bar Cafe.. to Cormoran Strike's.Welcome back in London,and to actually Being Strike.I still see him as "Hugh Jackman" :),with some hair style to match, & Emma Watson as his adorable blonde, smart secretary, Robin.And Welcome to The Case of the Manuscript of....Bombyx Mori ..writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will
I could really go for a chocolate biscuit
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