![]() While I didn't love Kill All Your Darlings, I enjoyed the premise. This is a good, slower-paced mystery with some good twists and turns. The ending was a bit predictable, but there was a solid twist. The premise held my attention, but parts of the book were too drawn out, and, at times, I was a little bored. There are some casualties, but Grendel makes it out safely! Narrated by Connor and Madeline, both make compelling narrators. More and more problems emerge for Connor as he soon finds himself the main suspect in a murder investigation. Making things even more problematic is that Connor’s novel details a cold case. But there’s one problem, Connor stole the novel from one of his former students who went missing two years ago. ![]() With tenure on the online, he publishes a sensational thriller. Since the death of his wife and son, Professor Connor Nye is struggling. When the original writer begins blackmailing him for money, a series of events unfold exposing the twisted history of the Commonwealth University English Department. Kill All Your Darlings is a solid mystery about a down on your luck professor who finally achieves acclaim by plagiarizing his best-selling novel. Thank you Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley for this ARC.Ī decent read, but it didn't knock my socks off. I love that Connor thinks of Grendel and makes sure he's safe, when things look like they could blow up in Connor's face. This is my favorite David Bell book so far. With multiple timelines and points of view, the tension stays high as nice guy Connor, who's made a big mistake, seems to make things worse no matter what he does. It seems that someone might want to hurt Connor physically, the police are getting closer to arresting him, and he's going to lose his job and everything he owns if he doesn't figure out what is going on around him. But there is more to things than just that. The story, with names and places changed, seems to parallel a real life murder in their university town so the police are very interested in talking to Connor since he seems to know some previously undisclosed facts about the murder.Ĭonnor is in trouble with Madeline wanting money that he doesn't have anymore, the police wanting to know how he knows what he knows, and being on the verge of his plagiarizing going public. Now that the book is out, Madeline is back and she wants the money Connor is getting for the book. So when a student, Madeline, disappears and is presumed dead, leaving her excellent thesis novel in Connor's hands, he edits it and publishes it as his own work. Really, his dog Grendel was all that kept him going. ![]() Connor didn't have it in him when he had trouble just getting out of bed in the morning. Any chance of publishing a book, which was a must for him get tenure and keep his job, was just not there. 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.Įnglish professor, Connor Nye, spent several years in a fog, after his wife and son where killed in a freak accident. ![]() 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. When another murder occurs, Connor must clear his name by unraveling the horrifying secrets buried in his student's manuscript. 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. And then she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, threatening to expose him.Ĭonnor's problems escalate when the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder from two years ago. There's just one problem: Connor didn't write the book. 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.
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