ROBERT GALBRAITH所著的《THE SILKWORM》讲述：当小说家欧文·奎因（Owen Quine）失踪后，他的妻子打电话向私人侦探莫兰·斯特莱克 (Cormoran Strike)求助。起初她以为丈夫就像往常一样，出去溜达几天就回来了。所以她想请斯特莱克侦探把丈夫找回家。
经过调查，侦探斯特莱克发现奎因的失踪没有他妻子想得那么简单。这位小说家刚刚完成一部手稿，小说里他几乎对他认识的所有人进行了恶毒的描述，如果小说得以出版将会毁掉很多人的生活，因而很多人都想让小说家奎因永远闭嘴。
当奎因被发现在奇特的情形下被残酷地杀害，侦探斯特莱克意识到他必须跟时间赛跑，找到凶手和杀人的动机，而这个凶手比他过去遇到的任何杀手都奇特。
ROBERT GALBRAITH所著的《THE SILKWORM》讲述：When novelist Owen Quirie 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. "l-he novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel is published it will 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 Strike has encountered before ...
