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Kill Your Darling

Clay McLeod Chapman

The acclaimed author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes andWhat Kind of Mother comes to Bad Hand Books.

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Bad Hand Books
  • Publish Date: Sep 24th, 2024
  • Pages: 214
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.49in - 0.52lb
  • EAN: 9798988128649
  • Categories: Thrillers - CrimeHorror - GeneralMystery & Detective - General

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About the Author

Clay McLeod Chapman writes novels, comic books, and children's books, as well as for film and TV. He is the author of the horror novels Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, What Kind of Mother, The Remaking, Whisper Down the Lane, and Ghost Eaters. He also co-wrote Quiet Part Loud, a horror podcast produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw for Spotify. Visit him at claymcleodchapman.com.

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Praise for this book

"We're supposed to mourn our deceased loved ones--but what happens when grief is all you have, when grief becomes addictive, turns toxic, downright poisonous? Clay McLeod Chapman deftly shows us in the unflinchingly dark Kill Your Darling." -- Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor


"Chapman secures his ranks among the greats of ambiguity such as Paul Tremblay and Catriona Ward with this impressive entry in his extensive catalog." -- Anna Dupre, FanFiAddict


"Here, the truth is a slippery eel, and the race between closure and madness is relentless--even as the dust settles, I can't be sure which won." -- George Dunn, FanFiAddict