Maybe I missed something or maybe it just went over my head, but as I was paying very close attention given that this was a mystery, I highly doubt it.

The McMasters Conservatory is a secretly located college, where you can go to learn the various arts needed to carry out murder, but only if your intended victim is someone that the world will be a better place without!The hardback edition has beautiful foil stamping on the cover and end papers with a lovely map of the McMasters campus.

The murders were hugely overplanned, in a way that sounds clever at first glance but entirely depended on a whole lot of people unknowingly doing things exactly as hoped, and detailed so lovingly that the book slowed to an absolute crawl.It just follows Gemma and Dulcie and Cliff on their separate murder planning from their own perspectives, no diaries involved.

It's certainly a uniquely told story from a unique author, filled with a bit of mystery and humor and a lot of drama.

The three students are: Cliff Iverson, an aircraft engineer for Woltan Industries, Gemma Lindley, an administrative executive of St. There are multiple plots that are well thought out with likeable characters, because there are multiple main characters. A funny, fast-paced, flip-the-playbook mystery in which three ordinary citizens are trained in murder on a luxurious hidden estate .

With a final thesis before him, Cliff will have to develop the perfect plan to kill someone and ensure that he is not caught. The beginning very much felt like a Harry Potter-esque tale (minus the fantasy elements) where you are whisked away to an unknown place by someone claiming to be your sponsor / secret guardian. Slow burn to edge of your seat, this story leaves you guessing and assuming…only to be questioning if what you read was truly fiction, or entirely possible. Like, if you run a murder school, I don't think putting so much emphasis on whether a person deserves to die actually serves as any kind of moral absolution. Someone in even only a slight (maybe even falsely perceived) position of power over you, and possibly others, who shamelessly used that to their advantage?Set in the 1950s, the reader learns of a mysterious and exclusive college, the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts. Decent character development brings Cliff Iverson to life and helps shape those with whom he comes in contact. Wonderful writing style narrated by the brilliant Simon Vance and delightful Neil Patrick Harris in the audiobook edition, which rounded off this intrepid and engaging story of revenge. It follows 1 main character and 2 other potential murderers as they take their courses and learn how to correct past mistakes. a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus-style resort.