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A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated…

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2 authors picked Murder Your Employer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

There's a certain quality to Rupert Holmes' smash hit. It seeps through the cracks of mainstream publishing to proudly shout its ambitious aspirations.

It's clever, genuinely fun/funny (British in essence, so no wonder), and challenging.

What's your outlook on murder?

Could it ever somehow be ethical? Is there a nobility to eliminating a target with careful planning? What about the demons in your past?

The ones that roam free while you are told how to properly dispose of a body?

It's a strange premise, but the execution is flawless. Also, some of the best dialogues you'll ever read.

A must-have…

Imagine a Hogwarts for would-be murderers, a secret academy whose students (adults only) study poisons, not potions, and wield weapons instead of wands. Author Rupert Holmes has taken this premise and run with it, and the result is an entertaining tale set in a world so vivid, I feel as if I’ve walked the academy’s campus. The story is told from the alternating perspectives of three students, and despite my moral opposition to murder, I couldn’t help rooting for them. (Yes! Do it! Kill those jerks who’ve made your lives so miserable!) With its intricate plot, snappy dialogue, and clever…

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