Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

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A funny, fast-paced, flip-the-playbook mystery in which three ordinary citizens are trained in murder on a luxurious hidden estate . and where one's mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live.

Rupert Holmes’s New York Times bestseller, Murder Your Employer (the first volume in his new McMasters Guide to Homicide series), was also aTop Tenon the Indie Bestseller List, the Washington Post, Los AngelesTimes, Houston Chronicle, and Associated Press.Cliff Iverson, Gemma Lindley and Doria Maye all have one thing in common – they’re here to learn how to kill.

Here is a quick description and cover image of book Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide written by Rupert Holmes which was published in February 21, 2023. A successful piano player for both the Cuff Links and the Buoys, with whom he had his first international hit, "Timothy," in 1971, Rupert also wrote and arranged songs for Gene Pitney, The Platters, The Drifters and the Partridge Family. He followed you up the escalator and, pretty brilliantly, sprayed you with a new cologne that’s available only at Brandt’s. And on top of that, we have the dean’s comments on their assignment and the pass / fail moments too. When presented with the time to complete his final assignment, Cliff will have to decide if all this training is worth it, turning him into the ideal murderer.McMasters dean Harbinger Harrow, offers the case studies of three pupils — Baltimore engineer Cliff Iverson (on full scholarship from a mysterious benefactor), British hospital worker Gemma Lindley, and incognito Hollywood star Dulcie Mown — to educate at-home students by example. It's certainly a uniquely told story from a unique author, filled with a bit of mystery and humor and a lot of drama. There are kitchen gardens so the food is fresh and there’s an ice cream van to complete the bucolic setting. Fiedler’s a thug who controls and manipulates everyone around him for pleasures sadistic or sexual, or for successes that boost his career.

Once inside, I threaded my way through a maze of haberdashery display tables and entered a portal leading to the men’s changing rooms.A case study in the droll amusements of homicide, Rupert Holmes’s send-up of higher education and even higher crimes and misdemeanors will keep you up at night—alternately turning pages and checking to make sure the front door is locked. The campus of this “Poison Ivy League” college-its location unknown to even those who study there-is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate…and where one’s mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live. Lily won’t send Emerson to her father’s house overnight until she’s old enough to talk—“So she can tell me if something happens”—but she doesn’t want to fight for full custody lest it become an expensive legal drama or, worse, a physical fight.

To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse—nor better—than death. Dark humor, the world of academics (complete with its infighting, rivalry and politics), and sanctioned homicidal intent with an element of mystery – what a fascinating combination! This is specialty school and world unknown to us mundanes (you have to know someone who knows someone to get in), and it’s also kind of an homage to the highly detailed nature of an attempted crime in a Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie murder scenario. Cliff Iverson is our main character who, after failing to murder his despicable boss is whisked away by parties unknown to The McMasters Conservatory of the Applied Arts. However, he is also the target of others who seek to exemplify all they have learned from the McMasters Conservatory.While the story comes down clearly on the side of all-encompassing love, Mallery has struck a careful balance: There is just enough sex to be spicy, just enough swearing to be naughty, and just enough heartbreak to avoid being cloying. 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 writing was witty without being exhausting, the dialogue flowed and the twists and turns conveyed just right. Reaching the book's conclusion felt tedious, but I pushed through if only to see who Iverson's mysterious benefactor was.