The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith ****

This is the second Cormoran Strike novel, this time centred around the world,of novelists, and Strike is hired to find the husband of his client, who has been missing for two weeks. strike finds his bodyA badly torturned and body parts missing, then sets out to protect his client from murder charges. 

His relationship with Robin, his secretary- assistant detective, is just as intriguing as ever, as Robin's fiancé, the hapless Michael, hates Strike just because.

Now looking ahead to the third novel, A Career of Evil, which has just come out.