The Silkworm

When temperamental novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife Leonora calls in private detective Cormoran Strike to bring him home.

But as Strike and assistant Robin Ellacott investigate, it soon 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; and has made enemies of many in the publishing world.

As Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, mirroring the description in his own unpublished book, it becomes a race against time for Robin and Strike to narrow down the many potential suspects – and hone in on a ruthless killer.

Starring Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger alongside an all star cast. Written by Tom Edge and directed by Kieron Hawkes, the two episodes of ‘The Silkworm’ aired on BBC1 in Autumn 2017.