Cloud a man becomes involved in a complicated web of lies, feuds, and secrets that leads to murder.

Judith Guest and Rebecca Hill began writing Killing Time in St.

Cloud was released in hardback on October 1, 1988 in the United States, through Delacorte Press, followed by a mass market paperback the following year from the same publisher.

Guest and Ms. Hill apparently intended to combine elements of the traditional novel and the formula mystery, then ended up with something that is neither.

[11] Shortly after the release of the novel in 1988 Guest and Hill announced that film rights to the novel were purchased by David Geffen and Co.