Kill All Your Darlings
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4.1 • 28 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A Most Anticipated Summer Read by SheReads * Motherly * Palm Beach Daily News * Frolic * Crime Reads and more!
"Fans of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot may want to check this one out."--Publishers Weekly
"With hints of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, this is a riveting thriller."--Palm Beach Daily News
"Grabs you by the throat and never lets go...with a twist you’ll never see coming.”
--Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish
"Sounds like Wonder Boys times Patricia Highsmith. Yes please!"--Crime Reads
When a student disappears and is presumed dead, her professor passes off her manuscript as his own—only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Request.
After years of struggling to write following the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman.
There’s just one problem: Connor didn’t write the book. His missing student did. And then she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, threatening to expose him.
Connor’s problems escalate when the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder from two years ago. Soon Connor discovers the crime is part of a disturbing scandal on campus and faces an impossible dilemma—admit he didn’t write the book and lose his job or keep up the lie and risk everything. When another murder occurs, Connor must clear his name by unraveling the horrifying secrets buried in his student’s manuscript.
This is a suspenseful, provocative novel about the sexual harassment that still runs rampant in academia—and the lengths those in power will go to cover it up.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of this brisk suspense novel from Bell (The Request), Connor Nye, an English professor at Kentucky's Commonwealth University, is visited by a former student, Madeline O'Brien, who disappeared two years earlier and was presumed dead. Madeline has a copy of Connor's latest book, a crime thriller, which she claims is her work. Madeline demands that Connor pay her the earnings from the book, which soon draws police attention as many of its details seem drawn from the case of a local woman's murder two and a half years earlier, a crime Connor doesn't remember. Desperate to make tenure, he doesn't admit his plagiarism and instead strives to prove he didn't commit the murder. The discovery of Madeline's stabbed body in the cemetery where Connor's wife and son, who died in an accident five years earlier, are buried adds to his woes. The plot is fairly straightforward, though the limited number of suspects makes identifying the culprit easy as the action builds to a satisfying, if somewhat predictable, conclusion. Fans of Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot may want to check this one out.
