Read of the Town: The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

I've got to say I'm still really pissed off that someone within her agents firm let the cat out of the bag about the real identity of the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. I understand why J.K. Rowling did it. There's been a lot of question about whether or not she was the real author of the famed Harry Potter series? Could she write another blockbuster? Then she wrote The Casual Vacancy, meant for adults, and while it did sell in the millions, was it because it was a great book and she is a great writer who was able to do what very few authors have been able to do: cross platforms from children/YA to adult genres? Or was that book an instant success because of the name of the author attached to it? She simply wanted to find out for herself...

So now unless she has yet ANOTHER idea and can come up with yet ANOTHER pseudonym she may never know. In fact I hear she has stopped being as angry as I still am (one year later) and has opened up about where the name came from and things like that. I think that's great that, in theory, she has let go of the anger. But I'm sure in the back of her mind she will always wonder and now will never know...

Anyway, this book, The Silkworm is the second in what I believe will be an ongoing series about an aging detective Cormoran Strike. I did buy the first novel, although I have not gotten around to read it as of yet, and I intend on purchasing this one as well. I simply can't leave an intended series incomplete!

Synopsis:

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...

A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, THE SILKWORM is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.