Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes

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⭐ Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes — Book Review (5/5 Stars)

📌 Spoiler Warning!

Before I go any further — this review contains FULL SPOILERS including the ending. I’m going to spill every juicy, hilarious, and murderous detail. If you haven’t read Murder Your Employer yet and want to be surprised, grab a copy first 👉 Buy Murder Your Employer on Amazon and come back later!

💀 Why I Loved This Book (And Why You Shouldn’t Read It at Work)

I gave Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmes a giant 5 out of 5 stars because I loved every single minute of it. It’s dark, it’s clever, and it’s hilarious.

I always say no one should judge you by what book you read on your work break — but I might have to walk that back. Do NOT bring this book to the office. Just imagine your boss walking by as you’re giggling over a scene involving a murder-by-Oscar-statue or someone framing their employer for espionage. Not the vibe.

And let’s not forget one of the book’s most brilliant lines:
“After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.”
This sums up the entire deliciously twisted philosophy of McMasters - a school that teaches you how to murder your employer and get away with it.

📝 Plot Summary — How to (Literally) Murder Your Employer

Welcome to McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a secret school where students learn the fine art of… deleting (read: killing) their employers. But with style, finesse, and moral philosophy, of course!

🎩 Meet the Students

  • Cliff Iverson – a decent guy whose brilliant aircraft designs were stolen by his slimy boss, Merrill Fiedler.

  • Gemma Lindley – a kind nurse blackmailed and exploited by her boss, Adele.

  • Doria Maye (formerly Dulcie Mown) – a Hollywood starlet preyed upon by a gross studio exec, Leonid Kosta.

💣 The Deletions (Full Spoilers!)

✈️ Cliff vs. Merrill Fiedler

Cliff creates the most delightfully elaborate frame-up ever. He:

  • Fakes a gambling debt trail for Fiedler.

  • Stages a phony industrial espionage scheme.

  • Tricks Fiedler into drinking poisoned liqueur, after making sure Fiedler’s fingerprints are all over a confession and evidence.

  • Fiedler dies a painful death, set up to look like suicide under the weight of his supposed crimes.

🎬 Doria vs. Leonid Kosta

Doria gives Kosta exactly what he deserves. She:

  • Disguises herself, lures him to his beach house.

  • Brains him with his own Oscar (best supporting murder weapon).

  • Stages the scene to look like Kosta died during a sordid encounter with another man (semen jar included — yes, really).

  • Police chase the wrong suspect while Doria looks like an innocent starlet.

🚗 Gemma vs. Adele

Gemma sets up:

  • A deadly trap involving cinder blocks rigged to crush Adele’s car.

  • But at the last second, Gemma hears Adele’s pregnant (ugh) and sacrifices the plan to save Adele and the baby.

  • The faculty reward Gemma’s compassion with a job at McMasters. Plot twist: the best deletion is no deletion.

🎯 The Final Acts

  • Doria gets stuck in a boring studio contract abroad, dreams of another deletion.

  • Cliff returns to McMasters as faculty (surprise!).

  • Gemma comes home to McMasters too, happy and heroic.

  • Dean Harrow plans to write more volumes for future deletists-in-training. (Sequel, please??)

🤣 Why This Book is So Funny

  • Ridiculous disguises: scuba gear, fake Latvian immigrants, bad wigs.

  • Absurdly polite murder plots: Cliff practically writes Fiedler a thank-you note while killing him.

  • Philosophical debates about ethics — as people plan murders. I mean, chef’s kiss.

🌟 Final Verdict

If you like dark humor, twisty plots, and want to root for murderers (but, like, nice murderers), Murder Your Employer is for you. It’s smart, wickedly funny, and impossible to put down.

👉 Buy Murder Your Employer on Amazon — but maybe don’t read it in the break room.

📚 Other Books You Might Like

  • The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

  • My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

  • How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie

  • The Appeal by Janice Hallett

💬 Have you read Murder Your Employer?

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