Murder Your Darlings: A Novel [9780063448100]

Overview

“Bestseller Blum’s diabolically clever first thriller is literally fireworks on the page. . . . Catnip for readers and essential for anyone who’s ever gleefully fantasized about revenge. To say I adored this would be an understatement.”—Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and Days of Wonder

Known for such brilliant historical novels as Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family, A Mighty Blaze cofounder and New York Times bestselling author Jenna Blum now offers a contemporary, suspenseful novel about love, loss, and revenge in the world of books.

Simone “Sam” Vetiver is a mid-career novelist facing a deadline for a new book on which she’s totally blocked. Recently divorced, Sam is worrying where her life is going when she receives glowing fan mail from stratospherically successful author William Corwyn.

When William and Sam meet, their literary sympathy is as intense as their chemistry, and both writers think they’ve found The One. But as in their own novels, things between Sam and William are not what they seem. William has multiple stalkers, including the scarily persistent Rabbit.

And when writers turn up dead, including from The Darlings support group William runs, Sam has to ask: Is it the Rabbit—William’s number one stalker? Or another woman scorned? Can William be everything he seems?

Narrated by Sam, William, and the Rabbit, Murder Your Darlings is a wickedly witty look at today’s literary landscape and a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of how far people will go for love.