Kill All Your Darlings

By: David Bell

Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom

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."--Publishers Weekly

"With hints of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, this is a riveting thriller."--Palm Beach Daily News

"Grabs you by the throat and never lets go...with a twist you’ll never see coming.”
--Liv Constantine, bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish

"Sounds like Wonder Boys times Patricia Highsmith. Yes please!"--Crime Reads

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.

After 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.

There’s just one problem: Connor didn’t write the book. His missing student did. And then she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, threatening to expose him.

Connor’s problems escalate when the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder from two years ago. 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. When another murder occurs, Connor must clear his name by unraveling the horrifying secrets buried in his student’s manuscript.

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.

Average thriller

The storyline was fine. Nothing too shocking or thrilling but decent writing. The characters seemed a little 2 dimensional.

The Twists! The Turns!

I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. Loved loved loved it! Bell is a talented story teller!

A good read.

I enjoyed the story line and the different perceptives. Could have been better with a male and female voice for the different characters. But I still found the narrator good.

Fizzled out

Really strong and gripping first half, but it started meandering and losing its appeal in the second. It could have been significantly shorter and punchier. A real shame given how interesting the premise is!

Great story, artfully read

Really enjoyed this, more than I expected to! I agree with others that it got a little long and meandered at the end… and left a few things unanswered that I had hoped to learn more about. But overall, a great “read” that I enjoyed!