Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

The latest in my New Title Tuesday, this was suggested to me by Amazon. We are on book number 12 of 18. 

You may not know the author's name, but you might've heard a song he wrote on the Oldies station: The Pina Colada Song.  Honestly, I had no idea that's who the author was when I bought the book, and didn't until a friend commented on my FB post.  It really has no bearing on the review or the book anyway, but interesting factoid.

This was a weird book.  It is set up like a journal with editorial comments.  The journal portion is from a former student and now staff member at McMasters Conservatory, a school dedicated to learning how to murder, er, DELETE, those who deserve it.  Think Scythe school.  The school location is never revealed, but it was VERY Hogwarts-like (a little too much in my opinion).  The editorial comments come from the Headmaster.  In addition to the journaling student, we learn about two other future Deletists.  It also felt very Harry Potter course bookish, like the original Fantastic Beasts or Quidditch Through the Ages.   

It was readable, but I saw the plot twist coming fairly early.  I also had trouble NOT picturing Hogwarts or the Dean as Dumbledore. The hardest part for me was the anachronisms: Holmes refers to people of my parents' or even grandparents' generation for references, and I had to Google them.  If I didn't know some, it's unlikely my kids will.  

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