A Cormoran Strike Novel: The Silkworm (Series #2) (CD-Audio)

from The_reading_swimmer

I liked this one a lot better than the Cuckoo's Calling. I appreciated that it had more depth in the plot and the characters are developing more. I still felt the book dragging at a few points and started getting a bit repetitive. Perhaps 50-100 fewer pages wouldn't have hurt the storyline and wo...

from lauralkeet

The second Cormoran Strike novel is just as good as the first book (The Cuckoo's Calling). In The Silkworm, Strike, a private detective, is hired by a woman to investigate her husband's disappearance. He's been known to run off before, but this time he is found dead, the victim of a gruesome murd...

from TadAD

I enjoyed it slightly more than the first in the series. The characters solidified a bit more and the mystery was fine. Rowling backed off on telling us that Strike had figured out something a bit, which was welcome. A decent, solid mystery for me with interesting series characters. Worth reading...

from lrobe190

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...

from Lukerik

Is it as good as The Cuckoo's Calling? Of course not, nothing is, but it's still a superb novel. Believable characters and an interesting plot. The pacing is just superb. It never bogs down. Seriously, just look at the bit where Robin goes to the funeral. In the hands of every other author you'd ...