Dear Killer

Rule OneNothing is right, nothing is wrong. Rule TwoBe careful. Rule ThreeFight using your legs whenever possible, because theyre the strongest part of your body. Your arms are the weakest. Rule FourHit to kill. The first blow should be the last, if at all possible. Rule FiveThe letters are the law. Kit takes her role as Londons 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 lifethe only way of life she has ever known. But when a letter appears in the mailbox that will have the power to topple Kits 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 Ewells 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. "Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"-- Provided by publisher