The Silkworm cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 6.9
Points 25.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 147454
Points per Word 0.00017
Page Count 455
Points per Page 0.054945

Description

Strike, a war veteran before becoming a private investigator, probes the disappearance of a novelist called Owen Quine, who has been writing poisonous-pen portraits of people he knows. The plot contains profanity and violence.