The Silkworm

　　今夏最受矚目重量級推理小說！哈利波特作者J.K.羅琳將再次化身羅勃‧蓋布瑞斯震撼全球讀者！

　　繼《杜鵑的呼喚》後，落魄私家偵探柯莫藍‧史崔克與得力女助理蘿蘋必須抽絲剝繭，找出知名作家離奇死亡的真相！

　　知名小說家歐文‧昆離奇失蹤了，原本妻子以為這次丈夫像往常般離家幾天就會回來，但沒想到最後丈夫竟一去不回，焦急的妻子只好求助於私家偵探柯莫藍‧史崔克。

　　隨著愈益深入案情，史崔克發現小說家歐文‧昆不為人知的一面，他的失蹤比想像中更為複雜，而他剛完成的小說手稿更是整個案件的關鍵，因為它揭發了許多熟人的可怕真面目，一旦小說出版，將會導致許多人身敗名裂，而許多仇人正虎視眈眈地想要他閉嘴。

　　當歐文‧昆的屍體被人發現，不但死狀悽慘，詭異的周遭氣氛也讓案件變得更加令人匪夷所思，史崔克將面臨前所未見的重大挑戰，在時間的壓力下，他該如何找出殘忍的兇手？

　　曲折離奇的劇情讀起來大呼過癮，而落魄私家偵探與機智助理的絕佳辦案組合，將帶給讀者極具娛樂性的閱讀震撼！（文／博客來編譯）

　　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 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...

　　A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, THE SILKWORM is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.

作者簡介

羅勃‧蓋布瑞斯Robert Galbraith

　　羅勃‧蓋布瑞斯是《哈利波特》暢銷作家J.K.羅琳的筆名，《杜鵑的呼喚》則是她以「柯莫藍‧史崔克」為主角所寫的第一部犯罪小說。

　　Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy.