Fresh-faced ingénue Sofia Bencivenga arrives in Los Angeles long on dreams and short on cash. Alone, friendless, and broke, Sofia has almost resigned herself to the emptiness of her days, until a chance encounter brings her into the dazzling world of a charismatic group of authors-handsome, compelling Jaxson; bitchy Judith; and aloof, mysterious Alison-and their wealthy, successful, and amoral group of friends. But underneath the glamour of the writers' lives are secrets Sofia never imagined, and when Alison ends up dead on the rocks below Jaxson's behemoth seaside gothic mansion, Sofia realizes that the cracks beneath the glittering surface of Alison's pretty little life ran deep. And Sofia has a few secrets of her own... Equal parts love letter to Donna Tartt and Patricia Highsmith, The Darling Killersis a darkly funny, sexy, and sinister noir about the people we pretend to be around the people we want to become.