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. Someday we will be free.This unusual and absorbing debut looks at a serial killer through the eyes of the killer herself.
But we are all taught, in general, in some way, that someday our worth will be revealed. Maybe I was always given murders because they all thought that contributing to my legend was their importance. Perhaps the reason my mailbox was always secret was that the people who visited it came to believe that keeping the secret was a piece of their importance. Some people grow up believing that their importance is to be loved fully. Some people grow up believing that their importance is to love someone fully. Not everyone will be a doctor, or a lawyer. And not everyone is told that they will be important in the same way. Some forgotten children, ones who slip through the cracks.
The human race as a whole is a hopeful species. From the moment we can first understand words and perhaps even before then, we are continuously reassured that we have a place in things, that we have a part to play.
“We are all told from the very beginning that we are important.
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