ROBERT GALBRAITH所著的《THE SILKWORM》講述：當小說家歐文·奎因（Owen Quine）失蹤後，他的妻子打電話向私人偵探莫蘭·斯特萊克 (Cormoran Strike)求助。起初她以為丈夫就像往常一樣，出去溜達幾天就回來了。所以她想請斯特萊克偵探把丈夫找回家。
經過調查，偵探斯特萊克發現奎因的失蹤沒有他妻子想得那麼簡單。這位小說家剛剛完成一部手稿，小說裡他幾乎對他認識的所有人進行了惡毒的描述，如果小說得以出版將會毀掉很多人的生活，因而很多人都想讓小說家奎因永遠閉嘴。
當奎因被發現在奇特的情形下被殘酷地殺害，偵探斯特萊克意識到他必須跟時間賽跑，找到兇手和殺人的動機，而這個兇手比他過去遇到的任何殺手都奇特。

ROBERT GALBRAITH所著的《THE SILKWORM》講 述：When novelist Owen Quirie 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 Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. "l-he novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel is published it will 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 Strike has encountered before ...

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