Will I love The Silkworm?

Robert Galbraith is a pen name for JK Rowling and this bears all the hallmarks of her brilliance. The two central characters, detective duo Strike and Robin, are perfectly pitched. Strike, particualrly, with his army background, prosthetic leg, and doomed love affair with the gorgeous Charlotte, is a particularly finely drawn character. The plot is complex, without being convoluted, and the london setting is wholly authentic. Enthusiastically recommended.

Cormoran Strike and his business partner, Robin Ellacott, are searching for a missing writer who has penned a scathing novel, revealing his friend's most tightly held secrets. Any one of them would be happy to take him out. Ellacott and Strike are hired by his wife to find him. They do, brutally murdered. Besides facing a plethora of possible murderers, Strike and Ellacott face that there’s more than a working relationship evolving between them. But with Stike’s recent break-up and Ellacott’s live-in boyfriend, feelings are buried. After they solve their twisted case, I’m on to the next book in the… show more.