#62 in Crime & mystery
The Silkworm
- 542
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 6 weeks on the list, peaked at #2
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About the book
The Silkworm is a crime fiction novel written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the second novel in the Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was published on 19 June 2014. It was followed by Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018,Troubled Blood in 2020, The Ink Black Heart in 2022 and The Running Grave in 2023.
Reading order · Cormoran Strike
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 554 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 79% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 554 | 100% |
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How long is The Silkworm?
It has 542 pages — longer than 89% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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