Some people thought you just up and ran off on a whim. I swallow and lean back against the counter. “I guess it isn’t every day that a ghost shows up in your house.” “But I think I could use one or maybe two tonight.” I had to.” I hand her the glass, trying to control the trembling. She’s standing in the doorway from the living room, leaning against the jamb. “You were drinking a lot when I last saw you.” When Jake was born, twenty years ago, Emily’s brother gave me a bottle of Rowan’s Creek, so whenever I drink it, I think of my son. I open the corner cabinet and take down a bottle of Rowan’s Creek and two glasses. It’s cold out, and I’d turned the heat down when I left the house. I go back out to the kitchen, Grendel at my heels. “Do you want a drink or something?” I ask. Now that it’s out, I feel agitated, restless. I received a copy of this book from Berkley Books via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. The whodunit was rattling me! The wanting a certain someone to be innocent was so powerful! The Dog comforting the protagonist!! This was an inspiring recipe for success! This is a truly incendiary storyline with a constant rousing of suspicion that I could actually feel my blood heat up! “Kill All Your Darlings” is yet another novel written by David Bell that began my summer with the sizzling temptation to flip the pages because I had to know the answers to his wicked mind tricks, keeping me up late until the night. If there is one thing I know, it’s that I will read a book by David Bell each summer, love it and want to share my opinion about it with the world! 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. You can pick up Kill All Your Darlings in stores on Tuesday, July 6th from Berkley.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. When he finds evidence that he thinks can clear him, he thinks he’s in the clear but there’s a lot more to what happened to these two women and Conner may not be around long enough to get the truth out. Things are getting way out of control and Conner thinks the people he trusts can help him but he’s in for a big surprise. Then another murder happens and now Conner is the prime suspect. It contains information in the novel about a brutal unsolved murder from two years ago and now the police are questioning Conner about it (since he wrote the book). And now she wants all the money from it or she will tell everyone. Conner took it and fine tuned it and got it published. It’s a student that went missing two years ago and she is the author of his book. At first he doesn’t know who she is and then he does. He returns home from a book signing and something is wrong. He published his first novel, which has become a success and made tenure. English Professor Conner Nye is coming out of his funk, after he lost his wife and teenage son a few years ago.
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