The Silkworm
Robert Galbraith, 2014
Mystery, thriller & crime Contemporary fiction
Cormoran Strike enters the jealous, gossipy world of London publishing when a novelist goes missing.
Feels like serenity.
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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.Robert Galbraith is J.K. Rowling's pseudonym; The Silkworm was published in 2014, a year after a lawyer's leak revealed her authorship.
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- What is The Silkworm like?
- Feels like serenity.
- What should I read after The Silkworm?
- If you liked The Silkworm, try The Paris Apartment (Lucy Foley), Dark Lover (J.R. Ward) and The Turn of the Key (Ruth Ware).
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A marriage priced like a contract, and what time does to the balance.
When I married Jacques I understood it as an exchange. My youth and beauty for his wealth. Over the years, as is the way with this particular kind of contract, my worth only diminished as his increased.
The Paris Apartment · Lucy Foley
What a crowd looks like from the edge of someone else's death.
In her time as a reporter, she’d found that murder was a community event in Caldwell. Well, certainly for everyone except the man or woman who’d actually done the dying. For the victim, she had to imagine death was an alone kind of thing, even if he or she were staring into the face of the killer. Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.
Dark Lover · J.R. Ward
The line works as a thesis for the epistolary thriller: the narrator’s voice is both evidence and defence.
People do go mad, you know, if you stop them from sleeping for long enough...
The Turn of the Key · Ruth Ware
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