The Silkworm (A Cormoran Strike Novel, 2)
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Private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer -- and a sinister killer bent on destruction -- in this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, New York Times Book Review) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike. 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, he discovers that Quine's disappearance is no coincidence. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published, it would ruin lives -- meaning that almost everyone in his life would have motives to silence him. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, Strike must race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . . A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in J. K. Rowling's highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.
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There were characters/suspects who's characteristics were similar to each other and it made them a little difficult to keep separate in my mind. The writer is very good with details and slipping things in subtly. The mystery was complex and took me a while to figure out why the killer did it after I had figured out who it was.
There is a book within the book which Strike read and explained what had happened in the story even though it wasn't somet...read more
There is a book within the book which Strike read and explained what had happened in the story even though it wasn't somet...read more
вторая книга действительно лучше первой!
герой по-прежнему непонятен - толстый, некрасивый, угрюмый, и при этом на него продолжают вешаться женщины. его страдания по шарлотте так и вовсе невыносимы
герой по-прежнему непонятен - толстый, некрасивый, угрюмый, и при этом на него продолжают вешаться женщины. его страдания по шарлотте так и вовсе невыносимы
All right. The main characters are interesting, I would read another one just to see what they're up to. However, the writing is still a bit bad in spots. Hard to believe it's written by J.K. Rowling
1/23/2019: Bumping this down to 4/4.5 stars this second time around.
I still loved the murder situation and the continuous development of Strike and Robin and their relationship together, but I think I decided that it's not quite up to par with my most favorite 5-starred books, so I moved it down half a star. It's still better than the first book in the series by quite a bit, both in terms of plot and in terms of characters, and I especially enjo...read more
I still loved the murder situation and the continuous development of Strike and Robin and their relationship together, but I think I decided that it's not quite up to par with my most favorite 5-starred books, so I moved it down half a star. It's still better than the first book in the series by quite a bit, both in terms of plot and in terms of characters, and I especially enjo...read more
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