After the surprise success of The Cuckoo's Calling, J.K. Rowling will publish as a second novel under her crime-fiction pseudonym, Robert Gailbraith. Cuckoo protagonist Cormoran Strike (these names!) will return in The Silkworm, about a novelist who is murdered after writing a very unkind manuscript. Everyone is a suspect, etc. It's due in June, so your beach reading is covered.
- 2/17/2014
- by Amanda Dobbins
- Vulture
In the greatest literary revelation since it was discovered John Grisham’s novels are really naturally occurring spores formed from the bacteria in airplane seats, J.K. Rowling was unmasked this weekend as the author behind The Cuckoo’s Calling, a mystery novel that was released in April to little fanfare under the pseudonym “Robert Gailbraith.” The New York Times traces how Rowling was outed by London’s Sunday Times, an investigation that began after one of its writers expressed suspicion that such an assured, well-crafted novel could hail from a former military police investigator turned first-time writer. “Nobody who ...
- 7/15/2013
- avclub.com
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