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    Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
    Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
    Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
    Audiobook14 hours

    Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide

    Written by Rupert Holmes

    Narrated by Neil Patrick Harris and Simon Vance

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim.

    Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. 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.

    Prepare for an education you’ll never forget. A “fiendishly funny” (Booklist) 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 21, 2023
    ISBN9781797149837
    Author

    Rupert Holmes

    Rupert Holmes’s New York Times bestseller, Murder Your Employer (the first volume in his new McMasters Guide to Homicide series), was also a Top Ten on the Indie Bestseller List, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, and Associated Press. Holmes has received two Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, and multiple Tony® and Drama Desk Awards for his Broadway mystery musicals, including Curtains and his Tony® award–winning Best Musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. His first novel, Where the Truth Lies, was nominated for a Nero Wolfe award for Best American Mystery Novel, was a Booklist Top Ten Debut Novel, and became a motion picture starring Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon. His second novel, Swing, included his own original, clue-bearing musical score. His stories have been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories, On a Raven's Wing, A Merry Band of Murderers, Dead Man’s Hand, and Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop. Holmes has adapted Agatha Christie, John Grisham, and R.L. Stine for the Broadway and international stage. His lyrics have been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and EQ anthologies, and he is also the writer/vocalist of several Top Ten hits, including his Billboard #1 multi-platinum classic with a memorable twist-ending: “Escape (The Pina Colada Song).” 

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    Reviews for Murder Your Employer

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a rip-roaring listen with word play and a fresh concept. The book is well-written and entertaining, with hilarious and inventive elements. The characters and atmosphere are loved, and the dark humor is highly recommended. Some readers find the book to be a bit lengthy and detailed, but overall, it is a fun, engaging, and witty read. The narration by Simon Vance and Neil Patrick Harris is top-notch. A great choice for those looking for some dark humor and a unique mystery.

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    • 5/5
      The dark humor had me laughing from the very beginning of this very unusual but wonderful book! Highly recommended!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      By far one of the best!! Great narrator too! (Deadly funny;))

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      What a great concept! I never thought I'd be laughing out loud in a book about murder, but here we are. The narration was absolute perfection. I knocked off a star because I did get a little bored about halfway through, and I was tempted to give up. Glad I stuck with it - the end was great!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Such a great concept and so much subtle humor. Finally a great new book!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      One of the best, most inventive books I’ve listened to in some time. Simon Vance and Neil Patrick Harris doing the narration was an added bonus. Loved the characters — didn’t want it to end!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Really entertaining! Loved the cleverness and quick wit of this novel
    • 4/5
      This book had an amazing plot, characters, narration, everything! I was never sure what would happen and couldn’t put it down. I loved the 4 questions that kept coming back around
    • 5/5
      Absolutely delightful. What an amazing story from beginning to end! The performance was spectacular and I enjoyed the moments of levity mixed with what could be considered a somber topic. I loved this book tremendously! 5/5
    • 5/5
      The book and narration are outstanding! If you like dark humor then you will LOVE this! I’m only sorry that I’ve finished it.
    • 3/5
      The concept and plot was one I would have never imagined. However it went on entirely too long. The narrators were perfect and without them I might have given up and “deleted” this one.
    • 5/5
      Super entertaining, love the story told in such expressive and capable voices. Fun, engaging, and definitely worth a listen!
    • 4/5
      A fun story line! Catchy enough that you stay interested through the whole book. Narrators are also good.
    • 5/5
      Fun read. Great readers. Very well researched and plotted storyline.
    • 5/5
      All loved anything read by Neil Patrick Harris. It makes every story so alive...this is now one of my fave books
    • 5/5
      A very light and easy read. The narrators are superb!
    • 5/5
      Great fun, hilarious storyline and beautifully read. I enjoyed it tremendously.
    • 3/5
      I suppose I'm disappointed with this book due to all the reviews I have read about how funny it is and the dark humor it contains. I have laughed very little and I'm already hours into listening.

      The plans of deletion are clever and it's something interesting to listen to but I feel somethings are explained in unnecessary detail. This has been a hard one for me to listen to and I have debated finishing it. I have almost less than 4 hours left and I'm debating whether to finish it. Since there's so many different characters, their situations are explained so intricately for each one that I find myself zoning out and then having to go back and listen to it again.

      Although, this is the first time I have listened to an audiobook from this author, this could very well just be their writing style. It popped up as a suggested book and it seems to get good reviews on the different platforms I checked. It very well could be that it's just not my type of storyline. I was really looking forward to the humor everyone keeps writing about.
    • 5/5
      Playfully droll. Winking at the reader the whole way. Hilarious!
    • 5/5
      Excellent! I love long novels I can dig into and this one fit the bill. Splendid narration, interesting and unique story, and comeuppance a’plenty. What more could I ask for?
    • 5/5
      Humor made this awesome! I actually recently got laid off and the title of this book caught my eye! ? I loved it so much!!
    • 3/5
      5 stars for the premise
      5 stars for the narrators

      1 star for the ending and last third, storywise
    • 4/5
      Very entertaining yarn with excellent narration by Simon Vance and Neil Patrick Harris.
    • 4/5

      Loved the characters and atmosphere! Very witty, and smart. It made me want to be a McMasters student!
    • 5/5
      Fun, funny, engaging, relatable! Absolutely wonderful would recommend to anyone looking for some dark humor!
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite books of the year! Great narration! Creative, witty, and engaging!
    • 5/5
      Brilliant! And the narration was top notch! A cheeky read and even better listen!
    • 5/5
      Absolutely a rip-roaring listen! Can’t wait for the next installments!!!
    • 5/5
      Witty, clever. Well-narrated. A passing grade on all sides . I recommend
    • 4/5
      well written, the reading style and voices made it a really entertaining book
    • 5/5
      So fun! Loved this concept and different format of a mystery.