The silkworm / Robert Galbraith.
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TextSeries: Galbraith, Robert. Cormoran Strike ; 2.Publisher: London : Sphere, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 455 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781408704035; 9781408704028Subject(s): Strike, Cormoran (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Private investigators -- England -- London -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Novelists -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Private investigators -- England -- Fiction | London (England) -- History -- 21st century -- FictionGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery stories. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F GAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 30/05/2024 | 31111058505619 |
"A Cormoran Strike novel"--Cover.
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.
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