Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

If you like piña coladas, and pushing guys into trains

Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

by 2 Comments

About a week or two ago, I went to the bookstore intending to buy one specific book (in this case, it was Katherine Arden’s The Winter of the Witch, which I have also since completed and is now on my ever-growing list of books to review). As is usually the case for me, and against all my good intentions, I came out carrying a number of books greater than one. One of my unintended purchases was Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes (if that name […]

Murderous Delight

Murder Your Employer: McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

by Leave a Comment

I loved, loved, loved Murder Your Employer McMasters Guide to Homicide. It’s the best book I’ve read all year and so much fun. The premise is genius: the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts is a well-hidden, secret school that recruits students who have plans to murder a well-deserving target–or delete them, as the school calls it. The book follows three students, particularly focusing on Clive Iverson, whose diary entries are incorporated in the “guidebook” to the school. Two other students are also featured. The […]

“When a man dies from a bullet entering his chest, it’s a homicide. When a man dies from a meteorite landing on his head, it’s a Tragedy. Don’t use bullets. Use meteorites. Don’t commit a homicide. Commit a Tragedy.”

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

by Leave a Comment

Basically, this book is murder heists. As I finally sit down to start typing this review, I still haven’t decided if I’m going to round up or down from my 4.5 star rating, so I guess we’ll see what I talk myself into by the end of these several paragraphs. Rupert Holmes, of “Piña Colada Song” fame, has given mystery lovers a real treat. Especially if you like mysteries that play with genre and format, which this very much does. Something I didn’t know going […]

Yer a killer, Cliff!

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes

by 5 Comments

It took me a bit longer to read Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide than I’d figured initially. This is actually a pretty interesting and entertaining murder mystery where the mystery is not who dies or who dunnit; it’s how the would be ‘deletist’ (we don’t say ‘killer’ here) will achieve their goal while not getting caught and still observing the 4 main principles of ‘deletion’ (we don’t’ say ‘murder’):  Is this murder necessary? Have you given your target every last chance to […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo