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Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
March 2023
On Sale: February 21, 2023
400 pages ISBN: 1451648219 EAN: 9781451648218 Kindle: B0B3Y9GK6S Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery | Action
From the diabolical imagination of Edgar
Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-
songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a
killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied
Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine
art of murder where earnest students study how best to
“delete” their most deserving victim.
Who hasn’t wondered for a split second
what the world would be like if a person who is the object
of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve
probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory,
dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts.
To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for
erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor
better) than death. The campus of this “Poison Ivy
League” college—its location unknown to even
those who study there—is where you might find yourself
the practice target of a classmate…and where
one’s mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with
the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the
world a much better place to live.
Prepare for an
education you’ll never forget. A delightful mix of
witty wordplay, breathtaking twists and genuine
intrigue, Murder Your Employer will gain you
admission into a wholly original world, cocooned within the
most entertaining book about well-intentioned would-be
murderers you’ll ever read.
Rupert
Holmes’s much celebrated career ranges from chart-
topping story songs with surprising
twists—“Escape (The Pina Colada
Song)”—to Tony Award–winning whodunit
musicals—The Mystery of Edwin Drood—Edgar
Award–winning comedy-
thrillers—Accomplice—and the Nero Wolfe Best
American Mystery Novel nominated Where the Truth Lies,
made into an Atom Egoyan motion picture starring Colin Firth
and Kevin Bacon. Called “an American treasure”
(Los Angeles Times), “a true Renaissance man”
by Newsweek, “a comic genius” (Kirkus
Reviews) and simply “a genius” (The Times,
London), Rupert Holmes brings his wickedly clever
storytelling talents to this outrageous and darkly comic
mystery set in a secret, idyllic campus where students learn
how to “do in others as you would have others do you
in.”
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