Robert Galbraith – Page 9 – [DEV SITE] – CBR16 TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT

January 15, 2015 by Rachie3879 Leave a Comment

My first book for CBR7 was a doozie! The second installment in Robert Galbraith’s (ahem, JK Rowling) series on war vet turned private detective Cormoran Strike, The Silkworm, was quite an interesting crime novel. Set in wintry London several months after Strike famously solves the Lulu Landry case (in Cuckoo’s Calling), Silkworm begins with a tired housewife on the hunt for her artistically-temperamented, mildly-successful novelist husband. Naturally this being a mystery series, said husband isn’t missing; he’s dead, and in quite a gruesome way. Cormoran […]

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The Silkworm – Rowling gets dark

December 24, 2014 by competitivenonfiction Leave a Comment

Wow, JK Rowling can go dark. Like really, seriously dark. The Silkworm, is Rowling’s follow-up to Cuckoo’s Calling, continuing the story of Cormoran Strike and his now permanent assistant Robin. When Mrs. Quine comes into the agency and asks Cormoran to looks into the whereabouts of her wandering husband, Cormoran takes the case partially to annoy a self-important client he had been meeting with, and partially because he couldn’t help but feel for the odd yet compelling woman. A novelist and serial adulterer, Mr. Quine has a pattern of leaving […]

More impressive work from Rowling

December 23, 2014 by competitivenonfiction Leave a Comment

I am one of the few people who adored The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling’s long awaited and highly criticized follow-up to the series that made her a household name. I found it to be an exceptionally smart, if slow, character study; a story that took forever to capture my attention, but that I wound up deeply invested in. The Cuckoo’s Calling, Rowling’s next attempt (under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith), was similarly paced, but seems to have more broad appeal than The Casual Vacancy. The Cuckoo’s Calling is a fantastic read, starring […]

Writers, Publishers, and Murderers

November 13, 2014 by Sophia Leave a Comment

I read the first Cormoran Strike novel for book club. I picked up the second Cormoran Strike novel because I’d already become attached to the characters, and I needed to find out what J.K. Rowling was going to do to with them. The Silkworm (2014) by “Robert Galbraith” follows the continuing story of Cormoran Strike, London private detective, and his assistant Robin. When a dowdy, desperate woman walks into Cormoran’s office looking for her missing, semi-famous, author husband, Cormoran takes her case despite his concerns […]

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