Galbraith, Robert, — The Silkworm: a Cormoran Strike Novel.

NY, Mulholland Books, (2014). 1ST Amer Ed. VG Hardback in VG DJ. When novelist Owen Quinn goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. Has he just gone off for a. few days? As Strik investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelit had just completed a transcript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almot everyone he knows. It could ruin lives, and a lot of people might want to silence him. When he is finally found brutally mudered in bizarre circumstances begins a race against time to undertand the motivation of a ruthless killer and begins a race against time unlike any Strike has encountered before.