Dear Killer - Hardcover

Ewell, Katherine

3.47

4,746 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0062257803 ISBN 13: 9780062257802

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books, 2014

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Full of "can't look away" moments, Dear Killer is a psychological thriller perfect for fans of gritty realistic fiction such as Dan Wells's I Am Not a Serial Killer and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why, as well as television's Dexter.

Rule One--Nothing is right, nothing is wrong. Kit looks like your average seventeen-year-old high school student, but she has a secret--she's London's notorious "Perfect Killer." She chooses who to murder based on letters left in a secret mailbox, and she's good--no, perfect--at what she does.

Her moral nihilism--the fact that she doesn't believe in right and wrong--makes being a serial killer a whole lot easier . . . until she breaks her own rules by befriending someone she's supposed to murder, as well as the detective in charge of the Perfect Killer case.

As New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series Michael Grant says, Dear Killer is "shocking, mesmerizing, and very smart."

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Review:

"Ewell's narrative presents a beautifully nuanced and entirely believable portrait of a young woman slowly cracking as she finds herself applying the consequences of her amorality to those she has befriended."--ALA Booklist

"With thoughtful discussions on philosophy and human nature, as well as satisfyingly detailed and gory descriptions of murders, readers will find plenty to savor and discuss."--ALA Booklist

"Shocking, mesmerizing, and very smart."--Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series

"This unusual and absorbing debut looks at a serial killer through the eyes of the killer herself."--Kirkus Reviews

"Underneath the dark sensationalism thus lurks a complex framing of moral questions that thoughtful teens will want to grapple with."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Ewell s narrative presents a beautifully nuanced and entirely believable portrait of a young woman slowly cracking as she finds herself applying the consequences of her amorality to those she has befriended. --ALA Booklist"

With thoughtful discussions on philosophy and human nature, as well as satisfyingly detailed and gory descriptions of murders, readers will find plenty to savor and discuss. --ALA Booklist"

Underneath the dark sensationalism thus lurks a complex framing of moral questions that thoughtful teens will want to grapple with. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books"

This unusual and absorbing debut looks at a serial killer through the eyes of the killer herself. --Kirkus Reviews"

Shocking, mesmerizing, and very smart. --Michael Grant, New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series"

From the Back Cover:

Rule One: Nothing is right, nothing is wrong.
Rule Two: Be careful.
Rule Three: Fight using your legs whenever possible, because they're the strongest part of your body.
Rule Four: Hit to kill. The first blow should be the last, if at all possible.
Rule Five: The letters are the law.

Kit takes her role as London's notorious "Perfect Killer" seriously. The letters and cash that come to her via a secret mailbox are not a game; choosing who to kill is not an impulse decision. Every letter she receives begins with "Dear Killer," and every time Kit murders, she leaves a letter with the dead body. Her moral nihilism and thus her murders are a way of life--the only way of life she has ever known.

But when a letter appears in the mailbox that will have the power to topple Kit's convictions as perfectly as she commits her murders, she must make a decision: follow the only rules she has ever known, or challenge Rule One and go from there.

Katherine's Ewell's Dear Killer is a sinister psychological thriller that explores the thin line between good and evil and the messiness of that inevitable moment when life contradicts everything you believe.

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