J.K.罗琳以笔名罗伯特·加尔布雷斯Robert Galbraith写成的史崔克犯罪侦探小说系列第二部《The Silkworm》即将到货! 小说家欧文奎因(Owen Quine)失踪了,他的妻子以为他只是像往常一样消失几天而已,她找到侦探史崔克,希望他帮忙把丈夫找出来,没想到,事情远没想象的那么简单。原来这位小说家刚刚完成一部手稿,小说描述了他认识的所有人,各个原形毕露,丑态百出,如果小说出版将会毁掉很多人的生活,恐怕每个人都想让小说家奎因永远闭嘴。 终于,当奎因被发现在奇特的情形下被残酷地杀害,史崔克意识到他必须跟时间赛跑,找出凶手和杀人的动机,而这个凶手比他过去遇到的任何杀手都奇特。 罗伯特·加尔布雷斯Robert Galbraith原名J.K.罗琳,英国女作家,是风靡全球的《哈利·波特》系列丛书的作者。其犯罪小說《杜鵑的呼唤》(The Cuckoo’s Calling),塑造了落魄侦探史崔克形象,甫登场即获得好评如潮,作者身分曝光后小说更是一举登上各大畅销排行榜,叫好又叫座。2014年该系列的第二部《The Silkworm》仍然超有水准,情节跌宕起伏,让人大呼过瘾。
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.