Even as tension rises, Kit’s moral struggle holds center stage and builds to her final choice. Although readers may disagree with Kit’s take on morality, nevertheless they can watch her with fascination and even some sympathy as she commits her flawless crimes. Further complicating matters is her growing friendship with the detective assigned to her case.
Kit wrestles over which she ought to kill: Michael, who clearly deserves it but whose death has not been requested, or Maggie, who has become her only friend.
It’s all good, until classmate Michael asks the Perfect Killer to take out another, Maggie. She calls herself a serial killer, but she operates as an assassin, taking requests for murders from letters addressed to “Dear Killer” stashed in a shabby London restroom. She enjoys her high school philosophy class, where they discuss “moral nihilism,” a code she feels she understands. Seventeen-year-old Kit has been trained by her mother from an early age to kill by hand and leave no clues she takes great pride in the name she’s earned from the police: the Perfect Killer. As New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series Michael Grant says, Dear Killer is "shocking, mesmerizing, and very smart." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.This unusual and absorbing debut looks at a serial killer through the eyes of the killer herself. 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. Her moral nihilism-the fact that she doesn't believe in right and wrong-makes being a serial killer a whole lot easier. 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. Rule One-Nothing is right, nothing is wrong. 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.
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