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