What is the name of J.K. Rowling’s second Cormoran Strike novel?

J.K. Rowling’s second Cormoran Strike novel, published under the name Robert Galbraith, is The Silkworm. It was published in 2014 and follows private detective Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott as they investigate the disappearance of novelist Owen Quine.

The case becomes a murder investigation after Quine’s controversial manuscript is found. The manuscript contains satirical attacks on people in the writer’s life, giving several characters possible motives and making the literary world central to the mystery.

The book follows The Cuckoo’s Calling, which introduced Strike and Robin in 2013. It is followed by Career of Evil, Lethal White, Troubled Blood, The Ink Black Heart, and The Running Grave in the published sequence.

The title is easy to confuse with later entries because the series uses distinctive, darkly suggestive names. The Silkworm is specifically the second novel, not the third book Career of Evil or the fourth Lethal White.