Author J.K. Rowling announced the release of another crime novel under her pen name Robert Galbraith titled "The Silkworm."
The novel follows the story of detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott as they investigate the disappearance of novelist Owen Quine, according to Robert Galbraith's official website. Quine's wife, seeking help to find her husband, contacts Strike, but things are never as they seem. Check out a snippet of the official "The Silkworm" synopsis below:
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's 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 murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before...
Rowling's pen name was leaked when he attorney's wife let it slip to a friend, according to a Gawker report back in 2013. Since then, Rowling decided to keep writing under pseudonym and explained her reasoning on Robert Galbraith's website.
"I've always loved reading detective fiction. Most of the Harry Potters stories are whodunits at heart (Order of the Phoenix is more of a why-did-he), but I've wanted to try the real thing for a long time," Rowling wrote. "As for the pseudonym, I was yearning to go back to the beginning of a writing career in this new genre, to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback. It was a fantastic experience and I only wish it could have gone on a little longer."
You can read the first two chapters of "The Silkworm" here. The novel will be available in stores worldwide on June 19.
