Saturday 18 October 2014

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith

The second instalment of J.K Rowling’s adult crime series featuring Comoran Strike is just as satisfying as the first. Writing as Robert Galbraith, she has created a classic detective team in the characters of Strike and his young female assistant, Robin. Strike is an Afghan war veteran, clever and likeable, yet wounded both physically and psychologically. While his personal life is still in disarray, his reputation as a private detective is slowly growing.

In The Silkworm, the wife of the novelist Owen Quine has called Strike to find out where her missing husband is. As Strike investigates, he is drawn into a world of backstabbing authors and the cut-and-thrust of the publishing industry. Quine has just finished a manuscript that has malicious characterisations of almost everyone he knows – so there are plenty of suspects.

I have enjoyed J.K. Rowling writing as Robert Galbraith more than her standalone novel The Casual Vacancy. She seems to suit this kind of mystery genre much better and there are plenty of twists and turns, great characterisations, and a classic whodunnit feel. It is worth reading the first Comoran Strike novel The Cuckoo’s Calling, beforehand. I am looking forward to the next book in the series, which is, luckily, already half-written.

Reviewed by Mrs Brown

Catalogue Link:  The Silkworm

Listen to J.K. Rowling talking about the Comoran Strike character

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