The Silkworm-蚕-抽丝剥茧

作者：Galbraith Robert, Rowling J.K.

书名：The Silkworm《蚕》《抽丝剥茧》

中文简介：《抽丝剥茧》（英语：The Silkworm）是英国作家J·K·罗琳在2014年以笔名罗伯特·加尔布雷思（Robert Galbraith）出版的一部犯罪小说。这是以私家侦探作为主角的科莫兰·斯特莱克推理系列第二本小说，也是2013年《The Cuckoo’s Calling》的续集，随后接续的是2015年的《 Career of Evil》。

英文简介：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...