J.K. Rowling Is Releasing Another Crime Novel

Acclaimed British author J.K. Rowling, best known for the Harry Potter series, is releasing another book under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith

Titled The Silkworm, the novel will be released on June 19 in the UK (June 24 in the U.S.) by publishers Little, Brown, The Telegraph reports. The book, which serves as a follow-up to her 2013 crime fiction novel The Cuckoo's Calling, will follow PI Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott as they investigate the death of novelist Owen Quine

"As Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes," a Little, Brown synopsis of the book reads. "The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows...when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer." Read more...