Time Magazine reported that despite being revealed as the author to "Cuckoo's Calling," J.K. Rowling is set to publish another crime fiction story under the pen name Robert Gailbraith.
Her new book, called "The Silkworm" follows the story of investigator Cormoran Strike, who was introduced in "Cuckoo's Calling" and his assistant, Robin Ellacott, as they investigate the death of a novelist by the name Owen Quine.
Publisher Little, Brown, described the new novel as "a compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn," according to CBS News.
In an article by the Telegraph, the summary was published as released by the publishing company:
"When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. 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. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives: meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.
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..."
"Cuckoo's Calling," the first book under the pen name Gailbraith, did not attract as much notice as Rowling's Harry Potter series, but once it was discovered that the it was she who penned the mystery novel, sales skyrocketed. The lawyer who let slip her identity has since been fined, and she gave the awarded damages to charity.
"The Silkworm" will be on bookshelves on June 19 in Britain and on June 24 in the U.S.