Sphere A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn. The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott . 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 Quines 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 murder...