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书名：The Silkworm蚕

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数970

作者：Robert Galbraith

出版社名称：Sphere

出版时间：2015

语种：英文

ISBN：9780751549263

商品尺寸：12.6 x 3.6 x 19.7 cm

包装：平装

页数：580 （以实物为准）

The Silkworm《蚕》是J.K.罗琳化名罗伯特·加尔布雷思创作的推理小说，斯特莱克推理系列第二部。发现罗伯特·加尔布雷思，认识科莫兰·斯特莱克侦探，读全世界都在谈论的推理系列小说。推荐理由：1.《哈利·波特》的作者J.K.罗琳化名罗伯特·加尔布雷思创作的推理小说； 2.国际畅销书《布谷鸟的呼唤》续作，侦探斯特莱克的再度出场； 3.《蚕》情节百转千回，引人入胜，是备受称赞的科莫兰·斯特莱克推理系列第二部； 4.英文原版，无删减，有助于提高文学素养和英文水平； 5. 轻型环保纸印刷，小巧轻便，方便随身携带阅读。A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn,The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuringCormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott. Reviews:An unputdownable tale of malice and murder in a toxic literary world… this almost preposterously compulsive page-turner is irresistible summer reading (Sunday Times) Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence... A pleasure to read (The Times) A damn good read... It’s a book to gulp down (Telegraph) Huge credit is due to Galbraith in portraying [Strike] so vividly… Galbraith has pulled off a thoroughly enjoyable classic and I’m already looking forward to Strike’s next outing (Peter James, Sunday Express) A superb and polished thriller… an ingenious whodunit (Sunday Mirror) Pacy, unputdownable… I can’t wait for the next one (Daily Express)

小说家欧文·奎因失踪，他的妻子造访私人侦探科莫兰·斯特莱克。开始，她认为丈夫只是像以前一样，离家出走几天。她请斯特莱克找到丈夫，把他带回家。但斯特莱克调查后发现，奎因的失踪并不那么简单。奎因刚刚完成一部作品，这本书几乎恶毒地描绘了他认识的所有人。这部小说如果出版，将会毁掉很多人的生活，所以肯定有很多人想让他闭嘴。斯特莱克很快发现奎因已经死亡，死状离奇恐怖。斯特莱克必须与时间赛跑，尽快查明残忍凶手的身份和动机。这个凶手和他以前遇到过的任何一个杀人者都不同…… 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…

Robert Galbraith罗伯特·加尔布雷思，畅销书哈利·波特系列和《偶发空缺》的作者J.K.罗琳（J. K. Rowling）的化名。罗琳毕业于英国埃克塞特大学，英国女作家。1989年，她在前往伦敦的火车旅途中萌生了创作“哈利波特”系列小说的念头。七年后，《哈利波特与魔法石》问世，之后她陆续创作了《哈利波特与密室》《哈利波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》等系列。哈利波特系列小说被译成79种语言，全球销量达4.5亿册。2012年，J.K.罗琳出版小说《偶发空缺》。之后以男性笔名Robert Galbraith陆续出版了Cormoran Strike系列侦探小说，包括《布谷鸟在呼唤》《蚕》《罪恶生涯》。 J.K. Rowling is the author of the sevenHarry Potter novels, which have sold over 450 million copies and have been translated into 79 languages, and three companion books originally published for charity. She is also the author of “The Casual Vacancy,” a novel for adults published in 2012, and, under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith, is the author of theCormoran Strikecrime series.

The slightly unevenness in his gait became more pronounced as he walked down the slope towards Smithfield Market, monolithic in the winter darkness, a vast rectangular Victorian temple to meat, where from four every weekday morning animal flesh was unloaded, as it had been for centuries past, cut,parceled and sold to butchers and restaurants across London. Strike could hear voices through the gloom, shouted instructions and the growl and beep of reversing lorries unloading the carcasses. As he entered Long Lane, he became merely one among many heavily muffled men moving purposefully about their Monday morning business. A huddle of couriers in fluorescent jackets cupped mugs of tea in their gloved hands beneath a stone griffin standing sentinel on the corner of the market building. Across the road, was the SmithfieldCafé, open twenty-four hours a day, a cupboard-sized cache of warmth and greasy food. Thecafé had no bathroom, but an arrangement with the bookies a few doors along. Ladbrokes would not open for another three hours, so Strike made a detour down a side alley and in a dark doorway relieved himself of a bladder bulging with weak coffee drunk in the course of a night’s work. Exhausted andhungry, he turned at last, with the pleasure that only a man who has pushed himself past hisphysical limits can ever experience, into the fat-laden atmosphere of frying eggs and bacon.