THE SILKWORM

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone of f 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 realises. 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 - so there are a lot of people ...[Read more]