El Gusano de Seda / The Silkworm Paperback - 2014

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Segunda entrega de la aclamada serie protagonizada por Cormoran Strike y Robin Ellacott, una peculiar pareja que, por su inteligencia y determinacin, deleitar a los aficionados a las historias de misterio y suspense. La esposa del novelista Owen Quine est convencida de que su marido se ha marchado a pasar unos das solo, tal como ha hecho en otras ocasiones. Por ello acude al despacho del detective privado Cormoran Strike para encargarle que encuentre a su esposo y lo lleve de vuelta a casa. Sin embargo, Cormoran descubre que tras la ausencia de Quine hay mucho ms de lo que su mujer cree. Hace poco, Owen haba acabado un manuscrito en el que revelaba los secretos ms comprometedores de prcticamente todos sus conocidos. Es evidente que la publicacin de la novela arruinara sus vidas, as que, en teora, cualquiera de ellos hara lo que fuese por impedir que el libro saliera a la luz. Y cuando la teora se vuelve realidad con la aparicin del cadver de Quine, los acontecimientos se precipitan. Owen ha sido brutalmente asesinado, con una crueldad que Cormoran no recuerda haber visto nunca. As pues, detener al culpable se convierte en una tarea urgente, por lo cual Cormoran Strike y Robin Ellacott, su eficaz ayudante, han de recurrir a todo su arrojo y astucia para identificar al asesino y atraparlo lo antes posible. Reseas:
�Cormoran Strike ha vuelto, y con l, su fiel y sagaz ayudante Robin Ellacott: una pareja destinada a convertirse en un referente del gnero. Un festn de entretenimiento. -The New York Times

�La historia es adictiva, especialmente por sus protagonistas, la pareja que forman Cormoran y Robin, con los que no te importara cruzarte una y otra vez. -Time

�Astuta, bien construida, mordaz, ingeniosa, El gusano de seda es una novela negra que fascina. -People

�La escritura de Robert Galbraith es ingeniosa y est impregnada de cario por la tradicin de la novela de detectives. Adems, lleva al lector por una trama repleta de giros, tan adictiva que pierde la nocin del tiempo. Esperamos impacientes la prxima entrega. -The Seattle Times

�Un libro que se devora. -The Telegraph

�Robert Galbraith es un soplo de aire fresco para el gnero: hard-boiled y satrico, a la vez que conmovedor y romntico. -The Wall Street Journal DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH In this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, The New York Times Book Review), private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer -- and a sinister killer bent on destruction. When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. 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. But as Strike investigates, he discovers that Quine's disappearance is no coincidence. 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 -- meaning that almost everyone in his life would have motives to silence him. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, Strike must race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . .
A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in J. K. Rowling's highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott. "Cormoran Strike is back, and so is his resourceful sidekick, Robin Ellacott, a gumshoe team that's on its way to becoming as celebrated for its mystery-solving skills as Nick and Nora Charles of "Thin Man" fame, and Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander (a.k.a. the girl with the dragon tattoo)."?Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "'The last line of The Silkworm, which will lift the hearts of readers who have come to love its deeply sympathetic characters, offers the prospect of more of that joy both for her and for us."?Charles Finch, USA Today (3.5/4 stars) "Robert Galbraith... has written a second absorbing whodunit starring detective Corcmoran Strike to follow last year's stealth hit, The Cuckoo's Calling.... Astutely observed, well-paced... The Silkworm thoroughly engages as a crime novel."?Sue Corbett, People

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