De acuerdo con el diario británico The Guardian el 24 de junio verá a la luz la novela El gusano de seda (The Silkwarm). Su autor es Robert Galbraith, bajo cuya silueta no se oculta otra que la mismísima J.K. Rowling. Así, se trata de la segunda novela que publica Rowling con este pseudónimo. La primera fue El canto del cuco (The Cuckoo’s Calling).
La editorial Little Brown describe el libro como «una novela de misterio de lectura compulsiva con continuos giros».
La página web ficticia de Robert Galbraith se hace eco de la noticia, además de avanzar una pequeña sinopsis del libro.
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…
Como se puede leer, esta nueva novela estará protagonizada de nuevo por el detective y veterano de guerra Cormoran Strike, quien, junto con su joven ayudante Robin Ellacott, tratará de desentrañar el misterio que hay tras el brutal asesinato del novelista Owen Quine.
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