當小說傢歐文•奎因（Owen Quine）失蹤後, 他的妻子打電話嚮私人偵探莫蘭•斯特萊剋 (Cormoran Strike)求助. 起初她以為丈夫就像往常一樣, 齣去溜達幾天就迴來瞭. 所以她想請斯特萊剋偵探把丈夫找迴傢.

經過調查, 偵探斯特萊剋發現奎因的失蹤沒有他妻子想得那麼簡單. 這位小說傢剛剛完成一部手稿, 小說裏他幾乎對他認識的所有人進行瞭惡毒的描述，如果小說得以齣版將會毀掉很多人的生活, 因而很多人都想讓小說傢奎因永遠閉嘴.

當奎因被發現在奇特的情形下被殘酷地殺害, 偵探斯特萊剋意識到他必須跟時間賽跑, 找到凶手和殺人的動機, 而這個凶手比他過去遇到的任何殺手都奇特.

《蠶》是一部情節麯摺生動, 令讀者欲罷不能的犯罪偵探小說，小說的主人公是伍軍人齣身的私傢偵探科莫蘭•斯特萊剋和他的不屈不饒的年輕助手羅賓 艾勒考特（Robin Ellacott）. 斯特萊剋探案集自去年齣版以來備受好評，《蠶》是這個係列的第二部。

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.

羅伯特·加爾布雷思是J.K.羅琳的化名。J.K.羅琳著有暢銷書“哈利·波特”係列和《偶發空缺》。

《蠶》是備受稱贊的科莫蘭·斯特萊剋推理係列第二部。首部《布榖鳥的呼喚》簡體中文版齣版於2014年4月。