Author | Robert Galbraith |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Crime fiction |
Publisher | Sphere Books (Little, Brown & Company) |
Publication date | 19 June 2014 |
Pages | 454 |
ISBN | 978-1-4087-0402-8 |
Preceded by | The Cuckoo's Calling |
Followed by | Career of Evil |
The Silkworm is a 2014 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.[1] It is the second novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was followed by Career of Evil in 2015 and Lethal White in 2018.[2]
- 2Characters
- 4In other media
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Plot summary[edit]
Lifecycle of a Silkworm. Cocoon is the stage in which the larva spins silk threads around it, to protect itself from its predators. The larva traps itself inside the cocoon in order to pupate. The color of the cocoon varies, depending upon what the silkworm eats. It can range from white to golden yellow.
Several months after solving the Lula Landry case, Cormoran Strike is tasked by Leonora Quine with locating her novelist husband Owen. Owen, a former literary genius whose attempts to recreate his past success have failed, disappeared around the same time his latest book, Bombyx Mori, was leaked. The book has been deemed unpublishable due to its mixture of sexual assault, torture, and cannibalism as well as its slanderous depiction of the people in Quine's life.
https://tadqyh.weebly.com/blog/creative-sound-blaster-sb1095-driver. In addition to Leonora, Strike sets out interviewing the other people portrayed in the manuscript: Quine's lover Kathryn Kent, protégée Pippa Midgley, agent Elizabeth Tassel, editor Jerry Waldegrave, publisher Daniel Chard and former friend Michael Fancourt. The suspects, however, soon turn on one another, accusing and counter-accusing each other of killing Quine and ghostwriting Bombyx Mori.
As the investigation commences, Strike's relationship with Robin Ellacott gradually deteriorates, as she feels neglected by him and he feels unwilling to put her in a position where she is forced to choose between her job and her fiancé Matthew. The animosity is tempered when Strike finds Quine's body, which has been mutilated, doused in acid and posed to resemble the ending of Bombyx Mori. Metropolitan Police later arrest Leonora for the murder, prompting Strike to set out clearing her name.
Robin, meanwhile, strains her relationship with Matthew after she almost misses his mother's funeral to help Strike and gets caught telling a lie. Moborobo download for pc. Sidewinder force feedback wheel drivers. She later confronts Strike about his intentions only to be warned that she will be asked to do things Matthew will not like if she becomes an investigator.
With the case against Leonora piling up, Strike focuses on Fancourt, whose character in the manuscript is inconsistent with his relationship to Quine. Several years earlier, after Fancourt's wife wrote a novel that was panned by critics, an anonymous parody's release prompted her to kill herself. Fancourt accused Quine of authoring the parody and Tassel of enabling him.
Strike soon deduces Bombyx Mori is a metaphor for someone else's life and Quine was intended to be the antagonist rather than the hero. Realizing the manuscript was penned by a ghostwriter, he creates a plan to confront the killer. He later approaches Fancourt at a party and asks to speak to him in private. When Tassel, who is also in attendance, joins them, Strike accuses Tassel of being Quine's killer and the ghostwriter.
Tassel, a failed author herself, wrote the parody of Elspeth Fancourt's novel, which Quine used to blackmail her for twenty years. When he approached her with the original concept for Bombyx Mori, Tassel concocted an elaborate plan. She conspired with Quine to stage his disappearance, rewrote Bombyx Mori, killed Quine and framed Leonora. Tassel attempts to flee, only to be caught and arrested, which Strike and Robin planned in advance.
Sometime later, Leonora is released from prison, Fancourt acknowledges the original Bombyx Mori manuscript's literary value, and Strike tells Robin that he enrolled her in investigative training courses as a Christmas gift.
Characters[edit]
Main characters[edit]
- Cormoran Strike – A veteran of the Afghanistan war who was discharged after losing half of his leg in a bomb attack and wanted to leave fearing insanity. He is a minor celebrity, thanks in part to his notorious rock star father and his solving of a high-profile murder.
- Robin Ellacott – Strike's assistant and secretary who harbors a secret fascination with the world of criminal investigations. Now taking on a full-time role within Strike's agency, she aspires to become an investigator in her own right.
Bombyx Mori characters[edit]
- Owen Quine – an author once hailed as an avant-garde writer and one of the first 'literary rebels'. He has spent decades trying to recreate the success of his first novel, Hobart's Sin, to no avail. He is regarded as narcissistic and insecure in the extreme, and only tolerated because of the shadow of untapped potential in his works.
- Quine appears in the Bombyx Mori as Bombyx, an aspiring author whose genius is undisputed, unappreciated and unsubstantiated, prompting him to seek out his idols, but discovers that they only seek to use him and abuse him before eating him alive.
- Leonora Quine – Quine's wife, who becomes the prime suspect in his murder. She spends almost all of her time caring for their intellectually-disabled daughter, Orlando.
- Leonora appears as Succuba, a demon in the body of a hideous woman who holds Bombyx in bondage and repeatedly rapes him.
- Kathryn Kent – Quine's girlfriend and an author of 'fantasy erotica' that has mostly been rejected by the London publishing community.
- Kathryn appears as Harpy, a beautiful woman with a hideous deformity, implied to be a crude and cruel metaphor for breast cancer.
- Pippa Midgley – a transgender woman undergoing therapy ahead of gender reassignment surgery. She becomes enamoured with Quine after taking a creative writing course he taught; Quine, in turn, was inspired by her personal story as it dovetailed with his original novel.
- Pippa appears as Epicoene, a slave to Harpy, who seeks to escape her clutches with Bombyx. Bombyx responds positively until she 'sings', or reveals her transgender status to him, which he finds horrifying.
- Elizabeth Tassel – a failed writer who became a literary agent. She lives and works on the fringe of the London literary community, which she deeply resents, and expresses by bullying her staff.
- Tassel appears as The Tick, a parasitic woman who cultivates Bombyx's talent to leech off him.
- Jerry Waldegrave – Quine's long-suffering editor, who is one of the few people willing to tolerate him. His reputation is ruined by Quine's behaviour, leading to the breakdown of his marriage and his turn to alcoholism.
- Jerry appears as The Cutter, a horned, troll-like creature that ruthlessly destroys Bombyx's work. He carries a bloodied sack implied to carry an aborted foetus, and attempts to drown other creatures.
- Michael Fancourt – one of the original literary rebels, who went on to become a bestselling author. He maintains literature is an art form, and that art can only be considered as such when it provokes social discussion; however, this is little more than an excuse for his deeply misogynistic opinions.
- Michael appears as Vainglorious, a famous author and Bombyx's idol. He is revealed to be a charlatan, torturing his wife Effigy to fuel his own creativity and passing her torment off as art.
- Daniel Chard – the president of Roper Chard, a London publishing house specialising in modern literature. He lacks social skills and is implied to be a latent homosexual.
- Daniel appears as Phallus Impudicus, a man who murders writers to steal their talent, violating their corpses with his diseased penis.
Other characters[edit]
- Matthew Cunliffe – Robin's fiancé, who disapproves of her work with Strike. Despite considerable tension as a result of her working for Strike, Robin eventually tells him about her lifelong dream of being a detective and Matthew accepts to let her do it although he doesn't much like it.
- Richard Anstis – a detective with the Metropolitan Police who was involved in the incident that cost Strike his leg. Strike considers him a capable investigator, but lacking in imagination.
- Orlando Quine – Quine's intellectually-disabled daughter. She is the only person in Quine's life who does not appear in the Bombyx Mori manuscript, and it is implied that she is the only person he genuinely cares about.
- Lucy – Strike's half-sister on his mother's side, and the only member of his family that he has any regular contact with. Despite being his younger sister, she tends to mother him, encouraging him to settle down and start a family, much to Strike's consternation.
- Alexander 'Al' Rokeby – Strike's half-brother on his father's side, and the only member of his father's side of the family with whom he has any contact.
- Nina Lascelles – a junior editor at Roper Chard who helps Strike acquire the Bombyx Mori manuscript. She becomes enamoured with him and pursues a romantic relationship with him, which is not reciprocated.
- Joe North – an American writer and friend of Quine and Fancourt. He died of AIDS while writing about his experiences living with the disease. After lying abandoned for twenty years, the house where North died became the scene of Quine's murder.
- Christian Fisher – the editor of a niche publishing house who leaks the Bombyx Mori manuscript.
- Dominic Culpepper – an opportunistic tabloid journalist who hires Strike to find evidence of wrongdoing among the rich and powerful. He expresses surprise that Strike does not resort to phone-hacking to acquire evidence.
- Charlotte Ross – Strike's on-again, off-again former flame. Following the breakdown of their relationship, she has become engaged to another man, but continues to taunt Strike from afar.
Reception[edit]
Much like The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm was met with critical acclaim, selling more copies than its predecessor in its opening weeks.
Val McDermid from The Guardian gave the novel a positive review, but criticised the descriptions of the different London settings, which she considered superfluous: 'I suspect that having spent so many books describing a world only she knew has left her with the habit of telling us rather too much about a world most of us know well enough to imagine for ourselves'.[3] The novel was also nominated for a Gold Dagger Award at the Crime Writers’ Association Daggers 2015.[4]
In other media[edit]
Television[edit]
On 10 December 2014, it was announced that the novels would be adapted as a television series for BBC One, starting with The Cuckoo's Calling.[5][6] Rowling will executive produce the series through her production company Brontë Film and Television, along with Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts. The three event dramas will be based on scripts by Ben Richards who will write The Cuckoo’s Calling, and Tom Edge who will write The Silkworm and Career of Evil. Michael Keillor will direct The Cuckoo’s Calling, Kieron Hawkes will direct The Silkworm and Charles Sturridge will direct Career of Evil. Jackie Larkin will produce. [7]
In September 2016, it was announced that Tom Burke was set to play Cormoran Strike, [8] and in November 2016 it was announced that Holliday Grainger will star as Strike's assistant, Robin Ellacott. [9]
Additional cast of the adaptation include Kerr Logan as Matthew Cunliffe, Monica Dolan as Leonora Quine, Lia Williams as Elizabeth Tassel, Jeremy Swift as Owen Quine, Dorothy Atkinson as Kathryn Kent, Dominic Mafham as Jerry Waldegrave, Tim McInnerny as Daniel Chard, Peter Sullivan as Andrew Fancourt, Sargon Yelda as DI Richard Anstis, Sarah Gordy as Orlando Quine and Natasha O'Keeffe as Charlotte Campbell. [10]
The second series of the production, which adapted The Silkworm, featured two episodes. The first episode aired on 10 September 2017, followed by the second on 17 September.
References[edit]
- ^http://www.news18.com/news/books/robert-galbraiths-novel-the-silkworm-to-be-released-in-june-672390.html
- ^http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/24/robert-galbraith-career-of-evil-jk-rowling_n_7135338.html
- ^https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/18/the-silkworm-review-jk-rowling-robert-galbraith
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on 2 December 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^'BBC - Robert Galbraith's Cormoran Strike novels to be adapted for major new BBC One drama series - Media Centre'. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^Nancy Tartaglione. 'JK Rowling's 'Cuckoo's Calling' To Become BBC Drama Series - Deadline'. Deadline. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
- ^http://www.brontefilmandtv.co.uk/work
- ^https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37296931
- ^http://www.brontefilmandtv.co.uk/single-post/2016/11/04/Holliday-Grainger-Joins-Tom-Burke-for-BBC-and-HBOs-Strike-Series
- ^http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-09-10/meet-the-cast-of-strike-the-silkworm/
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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..more
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..more
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Published June 24th 2014 by Mulholland Books (first published June 19th 2014)
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Nov 02, 2013Mohammed Arabey rated it it was amazing
Welcome back to 12 Bar Cafe. to Cormoran Strike's.
Welcome back in London,and to actually Being Strike.
I still see him as 'Hugh Jackman' :),with some hair style to match, & Emma Watson as his adorable blonde, smart secretary, Robin.
And Welcome to The Case of the Manuscript of.
.Bombyx Mori
Welcome back in London,and to actually Being Strike.
I still see him as 'Hugh Jackman' :),with some hair style to match, & Emma Watson as his adorable blonde, smart secretary, Robin.
And Welcome to The Case of the Manuscript of.
.Bombyx Mori
“.writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glo..more
Jun 24, 2014Alejandro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Wicked brilliant! ( Yes ;) Pun intended! )
HERE COMES CORMORAN & ROBIN AGAIN!
If you are respectably active on the reading community, it will be no surprise that this 'Robert Galbraith' is really the mega-famous writer J.K. Rowling, author of the ultra-mega-famous book series of Harry Potter. Why bother on making up the pseudonym when it was revealed after like two weeks when the first novel of this different series got out, that's a mystery to me! (Yes, another pun intended :P ).
Evidently..more
Jul 19, 2014Jayson rated it really liked itHERE COMES CORMORAN & ROBIN AGAIN!
If you are respectably active on the reading community, it will be no surprise that this 'Robert Galbraith' is really the mega-famous writer J.K. Rowling, author of the ultra-mega-famous book series of Harry Potter. Why bother on making up the pseudonym when it was revealed after like two weeks when the first novel of this different series got out, that's a mystery to me! (Yes, another pun intended :P ).
Evidently..more
Shelves: genre-crime, 400-499-pp, genre-detective, read-in-2014, subject-books, genre-mystery, author-british
(A-) 82% | Very Good
Notes: Wherein there are many meals, and nearly every important chat occurs in a restaurant, pub, or over tea and biscuits.
Aug 27, 2013Ais rated it really liked itNotes: Wherein there are many meals, and nearly every important chat occurs in a restaurant, pub, or over tea and biscuits.
Shelves: contemporary, jkr, boy-pov, iwantitnow, maledetcrime, mystery, crime
J.K Rowling releases a novel under a pseudonym? Then announces that said novels sequel is already written and will be released in 2014??
This is how I imagine she looks right now.
Edit Feb 2014: We have a name, release date AND a synopsis?!?! Bloody hell!
This is how I imagine she looks right now.
Edit Feb 2014: We have a name, release date AND a synopsis?!?! Bloody hell!
Feb 19, 2014Raeleen Lemay rated it really liked it
I FINALLY FINISHED THIS THING. And it was great! I actually liked this book more than the first one, but just by a hair.
Highly recommend getting the audiobooks for these.
Jun 25, 2014Ferdy rated it it was ok · review of another editionHighly recommend getting the audiobooks for these.
Shelves: dual-pov, disappointing, boring-main-characters, crime, doormat-heroine, daddy-issues-mummy-issues, mystery, poor-female-characters, detective-detecting
2.5 stars - Spoilers
Disappointing, it wasn't awful but it wasn't good either. It was all rather predictable and generic, I wouldn't have minded the cliches and obviousness of it all if the main characters (Strike and Robin) had stood out in some way. Sadly, they didn't. I didn't care about either of them… I actually kind of hated both.
-I wasn't a fan of the writing, there were a number of times where I came across sentences that didn't flow very well. Some of the more 'difficult' words seemed t..more
Disappointing, it wasn't awful but it wasn't good either. It was all rather predictable and generic, I wouldn't have minded the cliches and obviousness of it all if the main characters (Strike and Robin) had stood out in some way. Sadly, they didn't. I didn't care about either of them… I actually kind of hated both.
-I wasn't a fan of the writing, there were a number of times where I came across sentences that didn't flow very well. Some of the more 'difficult' words seemed t..more
May 31, 2014Nataliya rated it really liked it · review of another edition
'..Writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.'And just like that, J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith takes on the familiar to her world of writing and publishing, bringing to light the petty conflicts, backstabbing attitudes, hurtful gossips and inflated egos. The bared claws and..more
Jun 25, 2014Karl rated it liked it · review of another edition
As much as I enjoyed the first Strike book this second venture was rather a let down. What we have in 'The Silkworm' are alternating chapters of the main character lamenting about the pain he is suffering from his injured leg, and his assistant Robin suffering from angst about her relationship with her soon to be husband. These concepts were rather new and interesting in the first installment, but have grown weary and tiresome being constantly replayed in this second. The pair travel from bar to..more
Aug 03, 2013Jill rated it liked it
The Silkworm is the tenth J.K. Rowling novel I’ve read. I believe that after ten often gargantuan novels I can make fairly accurate generalizations about her writing. And it saddens me to say that she keeps making the same mistakes.
Most glaring is her treatment of female characters. In the Cormoran Strike mystery series, we have another female character of much greater intrigue shunted to the side in favor of a male protagonist, aka Hermione Granger Syndrome. Robin is Strike’s young personal ass..more
Most glaring is her treatment of female characters. In the Cormoran Strike mystery series, we have another female character of much greater intrigue shunted to the side in favor of a male protagonist, aka Hermione Granger Syndrome. Robin is Strike’s young personal ass..more
Apr 25, 2017Adina rated it it was amazing
4.5* When I finished The Silkworm two weeks ago I was planning to give it 4* for reasons that I will discuss later. I decided to upgrade my rating when I went to visit my mum and I saw the novel on the nightstand, halfway read. “It’s really good, isn’t it”, I asked her with excitement in my voice. I realized then that I enjoyed this more than I did other mysteries so why not give it full recognition.
J.K. Rowling (also known as Robert Galbraith) can do no wrong. She is a brilliant story teller a..more
J.K. Rowling (also known as Robert Galbraith) can do no wrong. She is a brilliant story teller a..more
Jul 10, 2016Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2), Robert Galbraith (Pseudonym), J.K. Rowling
The Silkworm is a 2014 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the second novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was followed by Career of Evil in 2015. Several months after solving the Lula Landry case and seeing a sharp improvement in business, Cormoran Strike is tasked by Leonora Quine with locating her novelist husband Owen. Owen, a former lite..more
The Silkworm is a 2014 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the second novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was followed by Career of Evil in 2015. Several months after solving the Lula Landry case and seeing a sharp improvement in business, Cormoran Strike is tasked by Leonora Quine with locating her novelist husband Owen. Owen, a former lite..more
I love a good detective story and Galbraith really delivered on this one. Either she is a master of the red herring or I am an incurably gullible old sod because I was firmly convinced I knew who it was for two thirds of the book, only to have it turn out to be someone I never even considered suspecting. There were several twists that were surprising and intriguing. She plays with the concept of the manor house mystery by staging a convenient party for all of the suspects to attend where the det..more
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Feb 19, 2014Kelly (and the Book Boar) rated it really liked it Shelves: whodunit, liburrrrrry-book, read-in-2014
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I read this book MONTHS ago and never got around to writing a review . . .
Thanks for the reminder. Now that all of my friends are reading/have already read Book #3 I figured it was time to get off my butt.
The Silkworm is the follow up to “Robert Galbraith’s” bestseller The Cuckoo’s Calling. The difference this time around is everyone knows the author is really J.K. Rowling. The leading male, Cormoran Strike, is a little different to..more
I read this book MONTHS ago and never got around to writing a review . . .
Thanks for the reminder. Now that all of my friends are reading/have already read Book #3 I figured it was time to get off my butt.
The Silkworm is the follow up to “Robert Galbraith’s” bestseller The Cuckoo’s Calling. The difference this time around is everyone knows the author is really J.K. Rowling. The leading male, Cormoran Strike, is a little different to..more
Aug 20, 2013Jason Lalljee rated it really liked it
Reading J.K. Rowling’s writing for adult audiences reminds me irresistibly of bumping into grade-school teachers on the street. There’s the obvious comparison, of course, which is not having to pretend that sex and crass language don’t exist anymore, realizing your former educator is an actual human being, an experience, for some, that can feel surreal. If you’re really lucky, of course, you make friends with your old teacher, have coffee together. You start to view them complexly. Now that you’..more
Jun 18, 2014Laz rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: thriller, adult, mystery, crime
I remember being in a trance after reading the first book in the series. And now I am again at the same emotional state. I don't know what makes J.K. Rowling's books so charming to the eye and mind but when you start a book of hers you get lost in it. The main characters, Cormoran and Robin, they're both incredibly well-structured. I'd also like to add that there's quite a lot of character development, something rarely seen in detective novels, or at least that's my opinion. Cormoran weans off C..more
Sep 23, 2013Ashley rated it really liked it Shelves: bloody-and-gross, books-about-writers, christmas, addictive, class-gender-race, murder-most-foul, not-quite-five-stars-but-sooo-close, mysteries, anglophilia
Re-read February 2018: Okay, so now having finished my first re-read of this book, I am so tempted to up the rating to five stars. A large portion of that desire comes from listening to the audio this time around. There’s something really satisfying about Robert Glenister’s voice narrating this story; it most definitely increased my enjoyment.
Another part is that this just feels like the ideal murder mystery to me right now. It was exactly what I was craving, plus some. I love all the clues and..more
Another part is that this just feels like the ideal murder mystery to me right now. It was exactly what I was craving, plus some. I love all the clues and..more
Apr 02, 2015Kai rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“There are always loose ends in real life.”
Preordered, arrived and read right away.
I'm not sure if I liked this one better or the first one. Though a lot of really weird stuff happened in this book (or better in the book in this book) I enjoyed it a lot. And for my part, I did not know the murderer until the end.
Well, this is J.K. Rowling so what is there left to say?
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Preordered, arrived and read right away.
I'm not sure if I liked this one better or the first one. Though a lot of really weird stuff happened in this book (or better in the book in this book) I enjoyed it a lot. And for my part, I did not know the murderer until the end.
Well, this is J.K. Rowling so what is there left to say?
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Jun 03, 2014Shelby *trains flying monkeys* rated it really liked it
An author decides to put out a tell all book bashing some of his fellow authors and even some of the women in his life. His wife then contacts my lovely Strike to help her find him. I'd have left his arse gone but what do I know? Strike ends up finding his dead body and decides to stay on the case.
I love Strike and Robin. This team is just so much fun to read about. I keep wanting them to hook up but then I don't want them to either. I remember that ruined several other great relationships and I..more
I love Strike and Robin. This team is just so much fun to read about. I keep wanting them to hook up but then I don't want them to either. I remember that ruined several other great relationships and I..more
Jan 09, 2014Jonetta rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Cormoran Strike's business is now better than afloat following his last high-profile case. When the wife of a missing writer asks for his help to find him, Strike opts to take the case even though he probably won't get a fee from the seemingly down and out woman. What appears to be a cut-and-dried investigation turns into something much more.
I enjoyed this so much I hated seeing it end. There's nothing ordinary about the writing, the story slowly unfolding while expertly crafting vivid character..more
Mar 31, 2015Matthew rated it really liked it · review of another editionI enjoyed this so much I hated seeing it end. There's nothing ordinary about the writing, the story slowly unfolding while expertly crafting vivid character..more
Shelves: gr_awards_2015, 2015, mystery, audio, library
I enjoyed this more that The Cuckoo's Calling. I think that Galbraith/Rowling is getting better at this type of writing. I remember reading somewhere that it was easy to tell that it was Rowling because her style came through - but I cannot see any similarities between this and Harry Potter at all.
I will say, though, that the first two Strike books use a similar formula. All the players are laid out at the beginning and then Strike goes through meeting with each of them throughout the book. In e..more
I will say, though, that the first two Strike books use a similar formula. All the players are laid out at the beginning and then Strike goes through meeting with each of them throughout the book. In e..more
Oct 13, 2017Kristina Horner rated it it was amazing
Genuinely liked this book even more than the Cuckoo's Calling, which is saying something. Loved the initial dive into the main character's personal lives, loved the central mystery in this one, and honestly can't wait to keep reading this series. I am so pleasantly surprised and can't believe I waited this long to read them.
Joe and I have been listening to these books together on our commute and it's been the perfect series for both of us to enjoy, and puzzle around who we think is behind the mu..more
Joe and I have been listening to these books together on our commute and it's been the perfect series for both of us to enjoy, and puzzle around who we think is behind the mu..more
Mar 25, 2014Denisse rated it it was amazing
Good slow mystery is probably my favorite thing to read. The author knows about the publishing industry. Any famous author most know about it, the good, the bad and the ugly. And oh my God this story was an ugly succeed. The book is not your normal mystery novel. It has no action at all, tons of dialogs and inner thoughts, but I love these characters with their positive and negative attitudes. Plotting and creating not perfect personalities are some of the strongest virtues of this author and we..more
Feb 11, 2014Vicky rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: own-paper-copy, that-ending, i-like-big-books-and-i-cannot-lie, contemporary, adult, mystery, 2014-reads, british-authors, detective-detecting
Update 21/09/14:
Rating: 4,25 stars.
My overall thoughts on The Silkworm were similar to those I had about The Cuckoo's Calling. It started out pretty slow-paced (the course of the investigation requiring many descriptive parts) and for a while there was a lot of random-sounding information, but once it picked up and I started connecting dots and making predictions (all of which turned out to be wrong; I royally suck at solving mysteries) I was totally HOOKED.
The mystery was very intriguing (a mi..more
Jul 06, 2014Margitte rated it it was amazing · review of another editionRating: 4,25 stars.
My overall thoughts on The Silkworm were similar to those I had about The Cuckoo's Calling. It started out pretty slow-paced (the course of the investigation requiring many descriptive parts) and for a while there was a lot of random-sounding information, but once it picked up and I started connecting dots and making predictions (all of which turned out to be wrong; I royally suck at solving mysteries) I was totally HOOKED.
The mystery was very intriguing (a mi..more
Shelves: crime-novel, british-novels, suspense, drama, fiction, thriller, 2015-read, detective-story, reviewed, british-author
'Ha, ha, ha, thou entanglest thyself in thine own work like a silkworm, John Webster' ~ The White DevilOwen Quine was the man. He was the author who thought a day was wasted if he hadn't made his readers gag at least twice, according to Jerry.
Owen Quine's books was simply gory and disgusting. His final book was a tribute to the equally gory and disgusting people in the publishing world, disguised as six prominent characters in the plot. Appropriate names, describing their secrets, was ascribe..more
There are some things that I think this series has really got going for it. It totally has that old school detective story vibe going for it along with engaging characters and settings even the plots are really pretty good. This reminds me a little of a T.V. series though where the detectives solve a case an episode.
But will this story be for you? Well I guess that depends on a few things. There is something about Robert Galbraith’s (aka J. K. Rowling) that will forever feel a little bit like c..more
But will this story be for you? Well I guess that depends on a few things. There is something about Robert Galbraith’s (aka J. K. Rowling) that will forever feel a little bit like c..more
Nov 26, 2018Andrew Smith rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I’ve somehow contrived to dip into this series randomly and although the stories themselves are stand-alone I do feel that I've missed out a little on the relationship development between London based Private Investigator Cameron Strike and his female assistant, Robin. And there’s probably a few other carry-over elements I've managed to side-step, so it’s back to book two to fill in the gaps.
In this episode we are thrown deep into the competitive (and back-stabbing) literary world. Yes, this is..more
In this episode we are thrown deep into the competitive (and back-stabbing) literary world. Yes, this is..more
Jun 24, 2014Prity Malhotra rated it did not like it
Imaginery Conversation that must have happened between J.K Rowling & her Publisher after Submitting the First Cut of this Book:
Publisher: Good God Rowling, What is this ? You have summed up the whole. Novel in Just 150 pages ??
JK : Yes, wanted it to be fast paced & Thrilling.
Publisher: ROwling if you want money to be Rolling, you ought to atleast make this a 450 pages book. Less pages mean less pricing range means less profit Sweety.
JK : So how the hell should I increase your fucking..more
Publisher: Good God Rowling, What is this ? You have summed up the whole. Novel in Just 150 pages ??
JK : Yes, wanted it to be fast paced & Thrilling.
Publisher: ROwling if you want money to be Rolling, you ought to atleast make this a 450 pages book. Less pages mean less pricing range means less profit Sweety.
JK : So how the hell should I increase your fucking..more
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This was my first of the Cormoran Strike novels, and I now wonder why it took me so long to pick one up. It's a lot of fun (as a writer, I couldn't help 'recognizing' some of the London literary types - I imagine JK greatly enjoyed exposing their various snobberies and weaknesses). The writing is grown-up whilst remaining clear and unpretentious; the structure and plotting nicely traditional, keeping the narrative chugging along in a most absorbing way until the satisfying (if not entirely unsur..more
Aug 13, 2016Brenda rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: gift-from-gr-friend, 5000-books, mystery, crime, own-read, 2015-release
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Private Detective Cormoran Strike is back in The Silkworm, 2nd in the series by Robert Galbraith, with an intriguing and dark crime, which involves an author, a manuscript and a brutal murder.
Strike was hired by the wife of the author when he went missing – she just wanted him found. But the involved deception of his disappearance was more than it seemed. The manuscript was libelous and should have been burned instead of seeing the light of day; was that what the strange and convoluted circ..more
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is back in The Silkworm, 2nd in the series by Robert Galbraith, with an intriguing and dark crime, which involves an author, a manuscript and a brutal murder.
Strike was hired by the wife of the author when he went missing – she just wanted him found. But the involved deception of his disappearance was more than it seemed. The manuscript was libelous and should have been burned instead of seeing the light of day; was that what the strange and convoluted circ..more
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Rowling was born to Anne Rowling (née Volant) and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her m..more
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“The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.” — 171 likes
“..writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.” — 125 likes
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