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• Commended for Audies (Mystery) 2024

Overview

"From the diabolical imagination of Edgar Award-winner 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 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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Delightfully dark and compelling. -- Booklist Farcical plotting, idiosyncratic characters, and witty, stylish prose combine for a fun, frothy read. -- Publishers Weekly Highly entertainin...Warning: readers could die laughing. -- Shelf Awareness

"""Delightfully dark and compelling."" -- ""Booklist"" ""Farcical plotting, idiosyncratic characters, and witty, stylish prose combine for a fun, frothy read."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"" ""Highly entertainin...Warning: readers could die laughing."" -- ""Shelf Awareness"""

Author Information

Rupert Holmes has received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America and multiple Tony(R) and Drama Desk Awards for his Broadway mystery musicals. His first novel, Where the Truth Lies, was nominated for a Nero Wolfe Award for Best American Mystery Novel, was a Booklist Top Ten Debut Novel, and became a motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. He has adapted works by authors Agatha Christie, John Grisham, and R. L. Stine for the Broadway and international stage. His short stories have been anthologized in such collections as Best American Mystery Stories, Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop, and On a Raven's Wing. His earliest story-songs were published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He is also the writer/vocalist of several Billboard Top 10 hits. Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, including one for his narration of Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. A multiple Audie finalist, Simon has won Audie Awards for The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Market Forces by Richard K. Morgan, and The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. Winner of the 2008 Booklist Voice of Choice Award, Simon has also been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. Neil Patrick Harris's stage credits include productions of Sweeney Todd, Romeo and Juliet, and Rent. On TV, he starred in Doogie Howser, M.D. and currently appears in How I Met Your Mother. His film work includes Clara's Heart, The Next Best Thing, and Starship Troopers.

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