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The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
4.0

Another very solid, very readable private eye yarn from Galbraith/Rowling. As always the author shows her patience in letting character arcs play out for the relationships of the core characters. The main mystery is a murder that revolves around a salacious roman a clef about the London publishing industry... which makes me wonder whether this book was actually a roman a clef about the London publishing industry. That would have been brassy. The wikipedia entry doesn't say so. shame

It does mention some London reviewer's comment that the descriptions of placed in London were superfluous because surely everyone knows what those look like. Right, everyone important, who already lives in London. twerp.

Anyway, it was a heck of page turner, I like the characters, the mystery plays fair.