The Silkworm Announced

J.K. Rowling is back on the literary scene, but still not for a new Harry Potter novel, we're afraid.
Little Brown Book Group have today announced the publication of The Silkworm in hardback later this year. A sequel to last Summer's The Cuckoo's Calling, the book marks the second instalment of literature produced by J.K. Rowling under the recently-revealed pseudonym of Robert Galbraith and the Casual Vacancy author's second foray into the detective genre to boot.

Once again, Silkworm will focus on Rowling's new protagonist Cormoran Strike, after whom the series as a whole is named. Here's the official synopsis for the much-anticipated follow-up: "At first, Mrs Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days (as he has done before) and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before."

The Silkworm slithers into UK book retailers nationwide on June 19th.