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Kill Your Darlings
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $30.00
ISBN13: 9780063433625
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards, asking the question: why would this loving wife murder her husband?--Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Famous Last Words and Wrong Place Wrong Time
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an inventive and utterly propulsive psychological thriller told in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time to uncover the dark secret at its heart.
Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a published poet and Thom teaches English literature at a nearby university. Their son, Jason, is all grown up. All is well...except that Wendy wants to murder her husband.
What happens next has everything to do with what happened before. The story of Wendy and Thom's marriage is told in reverse, moving backward through time to witness key moments from the couple's lives--their fiftieth birthday party, buying their home, Jason's birth, the mysterious death of a work colleague--all painting a portrait of a marriage with dark secrets defined by a single terrible act they plotted together many years ago.
Eventually we learn the details of what Thom and Wendy did in their early twenties, a secret from their dark past that has kept them bound together through the length of their marriage. But its power over them is fraying, and each of them begins to wonder if they would be better off making sure their spouse carries their secrets to the grave.
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