Kill all your darlings
(Book)

After years of struggling to write after the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor Nye publishes his first novel, a thriller about the murder of a young woman. There's just one problem: Connor didn't write the book. His missing student did. When she appears on his doorstep, alive and well, she threatens to expose him. And the police insist details in the novel implicate him in an unsolved murder from two years ago. Soon Connor discovers the crime is part of a disturbing scandal on campus and faces an impossible dilemma" admit he didn't write the book and lose his job, or keep up the lie and risk everything. -- adapted from jacket