REVIEW: The Silkworm (#2) - Robert Galbraith

Title: The Silkworm (#2)
Author: Robert Galbraith
Series: Cormoron Strike
Publisher: Hachette Audio UK
Format: Audiobook
Time: 17Hrs 16Mins
Narrator: Robert Glenister
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

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...

Thoughts

I love Cormoron Strike as a character, and actually on paper copies of these books, but when I found out that Robert Glenister had narrated the other books in the series, I used my credits to pick the audiobook versions.

This follows Cormoron as he is asked by Leanora Quine to find her husband Owen, who is an author supposedly on a writers retreat. Cormoron ends up finding Owen brutally murdered just like his character in his unreleased book.

I really enjoyed this book and found it so easy to follow, and I love Robert Glenister as the narrator of the books, he really brings something extra to the books and makes them so riveting. I loved the twists throughout the story, I love that you are given the clues but I still never clicked who the culprit was.

Cormoron is my favourite character, he is such a great character. He has just been through so much, and really doesn't let a lot of people in, but the chemistry between Robin and Cormoron is fantastic. I also love that Cormoron acts like he doesn't care about much, but he does, you do see that he actually cares about people.

Overall, this is such a great story, and I will be continuing on with this series (Career of Evil and Lethal White are already on my Audible subscription)