Good news bookworms! JK Rowling is to release a new novel under her crime writer pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
The Silkworm, follows private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott as investigate the death of a novelist, Owen Quine.
The novel will be published by Little, Brown and Company on June 24th and is described by the publisher as “a compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn”.
“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,” reads the description of The Silkworm.
“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 to be published, it would ruin lives – meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer.”
This is Rowling’s third novel aimed at adults outside of the Harry Potter world, though it’s the second under her Galbraith name.
She was outed as the crime novelist after a partner at her solicitors office told his wife’s best friend of her involvement. Rowling sued and received an apology, as well as damages which she donated to the Soldiers Charity.
The accalimed author also wrote The Casual Vacancy, in 2012.
