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Kill Your Darling
2024
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4.25
Average Rating
167
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The acclaimed author of Ghost Eaters and What Kind of Mother is coming to Bad Hand Books with a new novella (nearly 40,000 words). About Clay McLeod Chapman’s Kill Your Darling: The body of Glenn Partridge’s 15-year-old son was discovered in a vacant lot nearly forty years ago. The police are still no closer to finding the murderer decades later. Glenn refuses to let the memory of his son fade—or let anyone else within this small working-class community forget. His long-suffering wife signs him up for an amateur fiction-writing workshop at the local library, just to get him out of the house and out of his own head. Rule number Write what you know—so Glenn decides to share his son’s story. The class offers him a chance to make sense of a senseless crime and find the fictional closure life never provided. But as Glenn’s story takes on a life of its own, someone from the past is compelled to come out of hiding before he reaches… The End.

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Clay McLeod Chapman
Clay McLeod Chapman
Author · 25 books
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