The Silkworm

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Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Large Print / Fiction / Mystery / Galbraith, Robert	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024

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.

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Great submitted by leenajong on July 27, 2015, 5:38pm Awesome mystery series!

not my cup of tea submitted by camelsamba on June 22, 2019, 10:44pm The majority of mysteries that I read are of the "cozy" subtype. This is pretty far from a cozy, not just because the main character is an actual detective but also largely due to the means of death and Bombyx mori subplot. Ick. It is tightly plotted and well-written, but there were so many aspects that I personally didn't enjoy.