Forfatteren Owen Quine er forsvunnet, og hans kone tar kontakt med privatetterforsker Cormoran Strike. Først ser det ut til at Quine har reist av gårde for litt alenetid, men under etterforskningen kommer det frem at Quines forsvinning er mer mystisk enn det kona først har gitt uttrykk for. Forfatteren har akkurat fullført et manus med portretter av nesten alle han kjenner. Hvis boken utgis vil den ødelegge livet til mange, og flere personer kan være interessert i å bringe forfatteren til taushet. Når Quine blir funnet brutalt drept under bisarre omstendigheter, blir det et kappløp mot tiden. En hensynsløs morder er løs, en morder ulik noe annet Cormoran Strike tidligere har møtt. Dette er bok nummer to i den kritikerroste serien om Cormoran Strike.
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he 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 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 who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he 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.
