Smakebiten min kommer fra en bok jeg nettopp ble ferdig å lese. Jeg likte utrolig godt "Når gjøken galer" av Robert Galbraith (J K Rowling), og da jeg oppdaget at bok nummer to om privatdetektiven Cormoran Strike hadde kommet på engelsk måtte jeg jo bare kjøpe den.
"The Silkworm" falt absolutt i smak hos meg. Jeg liker denne typen "slow crime" der veien til løsningen på mysteriet ikke nødvendigvis er halsbrekkende spennende.
På minussiden var den til tider litt langtekkelig, men jeg kommer absolutt til å lese de neste bøkene i denne serien :)
When novelist Owen Quine 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. 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 . . .
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 . . .
"Grateful that the day was temporarily dry, Strike reached the Quine house just before ten. It looked just as dingy and depressing in weak sunlight as it had the last time he had visited, but with a difference: there was a police officer standing in front of it. He was a tall young copper with a pugnacious-looking chin and when he saw Strike walking towards him with the ghost of a limp, his eyebrows contracted."
Finn flere flotte smakebiter her!