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The Silkworm

Here is the latest crime fiction from Robert Galbraith or should we say JK Rowling? I personally prefer the new pen name as Rowling is too closely associated with the Harry Potter saga and a new genre requires a new identity. This is the second novel of the Cormoran Strike series and this time, the private detective surviving the mean streets of London is looking for a missing novelist, Owen Quine. Does Quine’s unpublished book Bombyx Mori (Latin for silkworm) hold the key to the mystery? What follows is a series of baffling events or “twists at every turn” that would befit a classic murder mystery. And the downside? The plot is too structured and made too complicated, but is this mystery series destined to be as popular as the legendary Sherlock Holmes?

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