Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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I loved the setting of the school, from classes to the assignments given to through the eyes of our main characters. Guns, knives, poisons… these were murder weapons, all of which I’m too inexpert or squeamish to wield with any guarantee of success. A story with humor that's not overdone, details and "twists" were logical and keeps you on your toes along with characters that aren't the ordinary papier-mâché stereotypes.

Please understand that by nature I oppose all senseless killing… but in Fiedler’s case, murder makes perfect sense. You bought a ticket at the newsreel theater early this morning, watched until the hour of short subjects repeated itself, got into your clever camouflage, somehow lured Fiedler onto the subway platform—I’ll give you an A for that—then you did your nasty little deed and raced into the basement level of Brandt’s to lose your disguise. The sequel to It Ends With Us (2016) shows the aftermath of domestic violence through the eyes of a single mother.

I would definitely recommend this novel to anyone whose interest is even slightly piqued by the book’s title or concept. Recommending this to older fans of Lemony Snicket, Trenton Lee Stewart, and Pseudonymous Bosch, and to those looking to immerse themselves in morbid whimsies. Mega-talented Rupert Holmes has mastered just about every entertainment genre with the awards to prove it. The curved rails leading from the subway tunnel into the station were beginning to glow where the long beam of the front car’s headlight was hitting them.

The second half of the novel definitely picks up the pace as we follow the three graduates as they embark on their individual projects. As the story unfolds and you uncover what brought these students to learn the art of murder, you find yourself on the dark side, rooting for a killer. Also, sometimes it got too wordy and technical, which had some charm and merit but it also caused a reader to feel tossed out of the imaginary world and forced into a sense of.

A piercing metallic squeal sounded from somewhere down the tunnel like a tin pig being dragged by a chain through a steel slaughterhouse.

Rage built in me until it was not now just about Fiedler but all that was wrong in the world, with the remedy requiring nothing more than ramming this pompous peacock as the train rocketed into the station. If sensible people can kill themselves because life no longer seems worth living, then I suppose a sensible person might kill someone who makes other people’s lives unlivable, or who risks the lives of others. When Cliff Iverson finds himself wanting to kill his employer, he tries to execute what he feels is the perfect plan. I envied them their easier burden, my newly minted secret being a leaden knapsack I bore to the grandly outmoded Van Buren Hotel and Ballrooms where I was staying. For Cora, for my friend Jack Horvath found dead in a filthy city park, for every unlucky worker whose life Fiedler had ruined or spirit he’d smothered, for the children who might fly on a W-10 someday trusting their parents had known what they were doing when they’d purchased their tickets.

Cliff undertakes many of the courses needed to better understand the art of murder and how to effectively target those who deserve to be extinguished. An impromptu celebration on the beach at sunset with champagne becomes a weekly touchpoint to their lives as they learn more about each other and themselves.

The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like the object of your affliction ceased to exist? 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. So: a man in a ridiculous disguise pushes your former employer into an oncoming train, your fingerprints are on the glasses and in the cubicle where you removed the clothes, a professional security guard followed you from the changing rooms to here, and by the way, we’ve had a police Labrador brought to the lobby who’s decided he loves the cologne you were sprayed with and can’t wait to meet you.

My first year at Caltech I had initially pursued a dual major of aeronautic design and English literature, which was sort of like going to Juilliard to study piano and field hockey. It read like there was no editor and the author watched Knives out a few times and had a bunch of ideas and didn't know how to pick one so threw them together without any concept of how to make them into a cohesive narrative. If the illustrations of Edward Gorey came to life, they would be in the same neighborhood as this ‘Poison Ivy League’ college.