Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, 3) - Hardcover

Praise for "The Silkworm" "THE SILKWORM is a very well-written, wonderfully entertaining take on the traditional British crime novel....Robert Galbraith may proudly join the ranks of English, Scottish and Irish crime writers such as Tana French, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, John Connolly, Kate Atkinson, and Peter Robinson." "-Harlan Coben, "New York Times Book Review"""

"Robert Galbraith has written a second absorbing whodunit starring detective Cormoran Strike to follow last year's stealth hit, "The Cuckoo's Calling."...Astutely observed, well-paced and full of [Galbraith's] trademark acerbic wit, THE SILKWORM thoroughly engages as a crime novel." "Sue Corbett, "People"""

"A compulsively entertaining yarn." "Thom Geier, "Entertainment Weekly"""

"A great detective novel: sharp, immensely readable, warmhearted but coolheaded....The last line of THE SILKWORM, which will lift the hearts of readers who have come to love its deeply sympathetic characters, offers the prospect of more of that joy both for Galbraith and for us." "Charles Finch, "USA Today"""

"Swift-paced, suspenseful....Robert Galbraith has announced himself a fresh voice in mystery fiction: part hard-boiled, part satiric, part poignant, and part romantic." "Tom Nolan, "Wall Street Journal"""

"Galbraith brings flair and wit to [his] reflections on the state of contemporary publishing....Galbraith takes the existing strengths of the genre and uses them as the building blocks for [his] own considerable storytelling gift, crafting books crammed with memorable characters that make irresistible reading." "Val McDermid, "The Guardian [UK]"""

"Cormoran Strike is back, and so is his resourceful sidekick, Robin Ellacott, a gumshoe team that's on its way to becoming as celebrated for its mystery-solving skills as Nick and Nora Charles of 'Thin Man' fame, and Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander (a.k.a. the girl with the dragon tattoo)....An entertaining novel in which the most compelling characters are not the killer or the victim, but the detectives charged with solving the crime." "Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times"""

"The story is enthralling, not only for its twists and turns, but for the fun of the teamwork....Each chapter draws us further into Cormoran Strike's psyche, and makes us care more not just about the case getting solved, but about Strike being the one to solve it....[They're] a cast of characters who you'll want to meet again and again." "Ashley Ross, "Time"""

"[Galbraith] weaves a pleasurably wicked literary murder mystery with all its attendant aspects of publishing politics, from the peevish to the pompous, into Strike's personal and professional lives....Only two books in, and Galbraith's characters already feel like familiar-and welcome-friends." "Daneet Steffens," Boston Globe"""

"The plot zings along....Swift and satisfying." "Carolyn Kellogg, "Los Angeles Times"""

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.
Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible--and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.
With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them...
Career of Evil is the third in the highly acclaimed series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott. A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, it is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives.