I find dashed hopes in a writing class

The Writing Class**
Jincy Willlett

A cynical, aging creative writing teacher pushing 60? Right up my alley, I thought.

After a good first chapter or two, this books descends into an exploration of the teacher's hidden isolation and grief, and her finding friends in the losers in her writing class, who get bumped off one by one.

I didn't figure out who the killer was until the end, but, then, when I found out, I didn't care.