“bining a well-paced thriller with hints of the writing process and the seedy underbelly of sexual harassment on college campuses….entertaining and captivating in equal measure….dealing with some real-life issues in academia, student rights, and the pressures of college campuses.”- Mystery and Suspense Magazine Kill All Your Darlings is psychological suspense of the highest order, a morally ambiguous, twist-laden tale that shines a light on the darkness that lurks inside all of us.
"This is the best thriller set within the insular world of academia since Robert Ludlum’s The Matlock Paper and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. Samantha Downing, USA Today bestselling author of My Lovely Wife This book has everything-a missing girl, a murder, a book-within-a-book and so much more! One of David Bell’s most unique and engrossing novels.” “A dark, twisty journey through the labyrinth of academia. "Sounds like Wonder Boystimes Patricia Highsmith. Kill All Your Darlings will keep you reading late into the night with a twist you’ll never see coming.”-Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. "Grabs you by the throat and never lets go. " brisk suspense novel.Fans of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot may want to check this one out."- Publishers Weekly 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. 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.Īfter 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. "Sounds like Wonder Boys times Patricia Highsmith. Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. "Grabs you by the throat and never lets go.with a twist you’ll never see coming.” Ripley, this is a riveting thriller."- Palm Beach Daily News "With hints of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. "Fans of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot may want to check this one out."- Publishers Weekly Agent: Laney Katz Becker, Massie & McQuilkin.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. 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. 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. Desperate to make tenure, he doesn’t admit his plagiarism and instead strives to prove he didn’t commit the murder. 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.
Madeline has a copy of Connor’s latest book, a crime thriller, which she claims is her work.
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.
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