Leonora Quine wants private detective Cormoran Strike to find her husband, writer Owen Quine.  He’s been missing for two weeks which, as it turns out, is not unusual for him.  She’s sure he’s at a writer’s retreat.  But Own turns up dead–murdered in a grisly, bizarre fashion.  At the same time, his book is published–a grisly, bizarre book that infuriates Owen’s editors, publishers, lovers, and fellow writers with its gruesome, barely fictionalized depictions of them.   Everyone’s a suspect, and they’re all also pretty unpleasant people.  But are […]