The three main characters have very different goals and different types of people they want to murder, as well as different motives, but it's very understandable why they want what they want, even from the beginning. But then the book kind of deviates from its entire concept: it being a manual and it including written reports of these students. Of course, the selection process for aspiring students is quite rigorous (the fate of rejected candidates is another matter, altogether!

Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide is an original and fun story, and the narrators definitely add to the listening experience. For readers looking for a fast and fun book that will slay your funny bone, check out Murder Your Employer.I asked, feeling a multitude of angel feathers brushing my face as I rose from an abyss into radiant light. The book-within-a-book’s author, McMasters dean Harbinger Harrow, chronicles the experiences of three students to educate at-home pupils by example.

The book is written as if the dean is speaking to the new students at the McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts. 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.We also follow two of his other classmates, Gemma and Doria, as they learn the skills to both murder their own employers and to avoid getting murdered themselves. At least Cora wasn’t seeing this low point in my life… but of course, that was only because her own life was over.