The Silkworm: Cormoran Strike Book 2
Autor Robert Galbraithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 ian 2015
Observăm o evoluție rapidă a dinamicii dintre detectivul Cormoran Strike și asistenta sa Robin Ellacott în The Silkworm, al doilea titlu din seria semnată de Robert Galbraith. După succesul cazului din The Cuckoo's Calling, mizele devin personale și mult mai sângeroase. Totul începe cu dispariția unui romancier, Owen Quine. Soția lui crede că e o simplă escapadă. Strike descoperă însă un manuscris exploziv. Quine a scris o carte care ar distruge viețile tuturor celor din jurul său. Răzbunare? Șantaj? Sau motiv de crimă? Cadavrul este găsit curând. Scena e grotescă. Autorul a fost ucis exact cum a descris în propria ficțiune. Subliniem modul în care Galbraith disecă mediul editorial londonez, transformând orgoliile literare în indicii criminale. Stilul are ceva din proza lui Mark Billingham în The Bones Beneath, fără să fie o imitație — densitatea detaliilor procedurale este mai mare, iar accentul cade pe psihologia invidiei profesionale. Remarcăm cum această lucrare continuă explorarea fragilității umane începută în volumul anterior, pregătind terenul pentru brutalitatea din Career of Evil. Tensiunea nu vine din urmăriri spectaculoase, ci din interogatorii minuțioase și din cursa contra cronometru pentru a descifra mintea unui criminal care transformă literatura în instrument de tortură.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0751549266
Pagini: 580
Dimensiuni: 211 x 160 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Sphere
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Dacă apreciați un roman polițist clasic, dar cu o latură întunecată și modernă, această carte este esențială. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă fascinantă asupra lumii literare, unde cuvintele pot deveni letale. Este o recomandare certă pentru cei care caută un ritm alert și personaje cu o profunzime psihologică rară în genul crime.
Despre autor
Robert Galbraith este pseudonimul sub care J.K. Rowling, celebra autoare a seriei Harry Potter, semnează lucrările sale de beletristică polițistă. Sub această identitate, ea a construit seria Strike, care s-a bucurat de un succes internațional masiv și a fost adaptată într-un serial produs de BBC. Stilul său sub acest nume se distinge prin atenția meticuloasă la detalii, dialoguri ascuțite și o construcție complexă a misterului, demonstrând o versatilitate remarcabilă față de lucrările sale anterioare.
Descriere
'Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read' TIMES
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Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series
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 . . .
A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant Robin Ellacott.
*** The latest book in the thrilling Strike series, TROUBLED BLOOD, is out now! ***
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PRAISE FOR THE STRIKE SERIES:
'One of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years' MARK BILLINGHAM
'The work of a master storyteller' DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Unputdownable. . . Irresistible' SUNDAY TIMES
'Will keep you up all night' OBSERVER
'A thoroughly enjoyable classic' PETER JAMES, SUNDAY EXPRESS
Recenzii
Teems with sly humour, witty asides and intelligence ... A pleasure to read
A damn good read ... It's a book to gulp down
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
A superb and polished thriller . . . an ingenious whodunit
Pacy, unputdownable . . . I can't wait for the next one
An enticingly macabre whodunit ... taut and believable
You are absolutely carried along ... Well written, exciting
A great detective novel: sharp, immensely readable, warm-hearted but cool-headed ... populated with dozens of memorable characters
Enthralling, not only for its twists and turns, but for the fun of the teamwork
An atmospheric, propulsive narrative
An entertaining novel in which the most compelling characters are not the killer or the victim, but the detectives charged with solving the crime
A pacey detective story ... moreish
Fast-paced and entertaining ... Strike has all kinds of potential. It'd be a crime not to keep up with him
Galbraith brings flair and wit to [his] reflections on the state of contemporary publishing ... [He] 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 ... There are aspects of the traditional English crime novel reaching right back to the golden age of Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh ... The Cuckoo's Calling was a calling card for a series that has legs
If [Galbraith] had as much fun writing The Silkworm as I did reading it, [he] had a blast
An absorbing puzzle with vivid characters . . . Robert Galbraith deserves the inevitable bestseller
An intelligent and captivating drama driven by fascinatingly real characters. This is storytelling at its very best
Bring on the next one, please ... [Galbraith] writes with wit and affection for detective-novel tradition ... and races us through a twisty plot so smoothly that you won't notice as the hours tick by
The Silkworm is a deeply satisfying work of crime fiction, more complex and darker than its predecessor
A gimlet eye for detail and beautifully crafted plot make it a delight from start to finish, and a perfect summer read
A properly addictive whodunit. And in the unlikely pairing of ungainly Strike and his clever young assistant, Galbraith has created an investigative duo with spark and empathy