Silkworm (Cormoran Strike #2)

I listened to Silkworm by Robert Galbraith over the past couple of weeks. This is book two in the Cormoran Strike series. Robert Galbraith is a pseudonym for R.K. Rowling of the Harry Potter series.

It is a crime fiction/thriller book.

About: "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. "

I had read the first book, The Cuckoo's Calling, in our book club and liked it a lot. I really like the main characters, Cormoran and Robin, his assistant. We learn more about Cormoran in this book. One thing about his past is that his has a half brother, Al. They share a famous singer for a father... just like the "singer Tom Jones." Cormoran doesn't have a relationship with his father just like Tom Jones. (This is a point made in the story, so I had to go look it up. It is allegedly a fact.)

 Corcoran calls on Al for help on the case. Robin is engaged to Matthew and the wedding is coming up. They already share an apartment. Matthew is not too keen on Robin's choice of employment, or on Corcoran.

So...the narrator for the Audible book was very,  very good. He was able to change up his voice and various English accents enough so you felt you were listening to different men, women, with different accents. It was very long. 17 1/2 hours I believe. The murder is very brutal and described in detail...several times. It got to be too much for me to keep hearing about it. I really like Corcoran and Robin. I listened to it through the end because I was hoping for a different ending or beginning for the characters. 

Just found out, this is a BBC series and was picked up by HBO for their Cinemax channel. You may be able to find it there if you like the books. I will have to think about whether or not I want to go on to the third book. I liked the Harry Potter series alot by the way.