Murder Your Darlings
A Novel
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- 予約注文
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- リリース予定日：2026年1月13日
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- ¥2,400
発行者による作品情報
“Authors and book tours, stalkers and deadlines, horrid men and ice cold revenge . . . Murder Your Darlings will have you cracking up while you’re checking under your bed.”—Karin Slaughter, New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author
For every woman who’s ever fallen for a bad man comes a hilarious and eviscerating tale of love, loss, and deadlines from New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum.
Known for such brilliant historical novels as Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family, A Mighty Blaze co-founder and New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum now offers a contemporary, suspenseful novel about love, loss, and revenge in the world of books.
Simone “Sam” Vetiver is a mid-career novelist finishing a lukewarm publicity tour while facing a deadline for a new book on which she’s totally blocked. Recently divorced, Sam is worrying where her life is going when she receives glowing fan mail from stratospherically successful author William Corwyn, renowned for his female-centric novels. When William and Sam meet and his literary sympathy is as intense as their chemistry, both writers think they’ve found The One.
But as in their own novels, things between Sam and William are not what they seem. William has multiple stalkers, including a scarily persistent one named The Rabbit. He lives on a remote Maine island, where his writer life resembles The Shining. And when writers turn up dead, including from The Darlings support group William runs, Sam has to ask: Is it The Rabbit—William’s #1 Stalker? Another woman scorned? Can William be everything he seems?
Narrated by Sam, William, and The Rabbit, Murder Your Darlings is a wickedly witty look at today’s literary landscape and down-the-rabbit-hole tale of how far people will go for love.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Historical novelist Blum (The Lost Family) makes a smooth transition to psychological thrillers with this witty send-up of the publishing industry. Sam Vetiver, 40 and divorced, is on her way to the last stop of an exhausting book tour for her fourth novel while the deadline for her still unwritten fifth one looms. Fed up with the stress of publishing, Sam declares she'd give up writing if she had someone to share her life with. When she arrives home in Boston at the end of the tour, she receives a long, flattering email from bestseller William Corwyn, a 60-something novelist lauded for his female-centric blockbusters. William at first seems like a dream come true—until Sam learns about his obsessive stalker, whom William has dubbed the Rabbit due to her pronounced overbite. Effortlessly toggling perspectives between the Rabbit, Sam, and William, Blum gradually complicates her portrait of Sam's supposed savior until the novel starts to incur a body count. Funny, surprising, and razor-sharp about the book business's ruthlessness, this adds up to a captivating tale of love, death, and revenge. Thriller fans will be eager to see what Blum does next.
