The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith, 2014
Cormoran Strike enters the jealous, gossipy world of London publishing when a novelist goes missing.
Feels like serenity.
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Robert Galbraith is J.K. Rowling's pseudonym; The Silkworm was published in 2014, a year after a lawyer's leak revealed her authorship.
The strange innocence we grant the famous, even when the facts disagree.
Strike had always marvelled at the strange sanctity conferred upon celebrities by the public, even while the newspapers denigrated, hunted or hounded them. No matter how many famous people were convicted of rape or murder, still the belief persisted, almost pagan in its intensity: not him. It couldn’t be him. He’s famous. Robert Galbraith, 2014
Cormoran Strike enters the jealous, gossipy world of London publishing when a novelist goes missing.
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