A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, THE SILKWORM is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.Any writer who makes $90 million a year must be doing something right, right? With that unassailable premise in mind, I decided it was time to get down off my high literary horse and lose my James Patterson virginity.
When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives-meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. Quine just thinks her husband 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. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling.
But she fills these books with such interesting characters and she's such a terrific writer that they always work. With twists and turns worthy of a thriller, In the Kingdom of Ice is a spellbinding tale of heroism and determination in the most unforgiving territory on Earth. Battling everything from snow blindness and polar bears to ferocious storms and frosty labyrinths, the expedition battled madness and starvation as they desperately strove for survival. Amid the rush of water and the shrieks of breaking wooden boards, the crew found themselves marooned a thousand miles north of Siberia with only the barest supplies, facing a seemingly impossible trek across the endless ice. But it was not long before the Jeanette was trapped in crushing pack ice. The ship and its crew, captained by the heroic George De Long, were heading for glory and the last unmapped area of the globe: the North Pole. In 1879 the USS Jeanette set sail from San Francisco to cheering crowds and a frenzy of publicity. Part arctic history, part at-sea adventure, Hampton Sides’ latest is unputdownable. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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