It's targeted at the young adult market by Katherine Tegen Books, a children- and teen-oriented imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Not surprisingly, the novel also has an intriguing duality. Spilled blood is "the color of cherry cough medicine." A body hits the floor "like a broken plate." It seems appropriate somehow that Ewell says her focus at Stanford will be split between English and biology. The result is Dear Killer, a soon-to-be-published (April 1) novel about a high school serial killer-a girl with "a smattering of freckles dashed across a thin nose like Audrey Hepburn's"-who tells the story of her nihilistic activity with casual vividness. "For a while," says Katherine Ewell, a freshman from Los Angeles, "I had very scary Google searches."Īll for a creative cause. But what if somebody had been watching when she got some serious alone time on her computer? She's smart-interested in Kantian ethics, among other things-and close to her family.
Katherine 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.How do we really know who anyone is these days? Like that teenage girl everybody says is so cute.
Her moral nihilism and thus her murders are a way of life-the only way of life she has ever known.īut 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. Every letter she receives begins with “Dear Killer,” and every time Kit murders, she leaves a letter with the dead body. 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. Kit takes her role as London’s notorious “Perfect Killer” seriously. The first blow should be the last, if at all possible. Rule Three-Fight using your legs whenever possible, because they’re the strongest part of your body. Rule One-Nothing is right, nothing is wrong.
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