Genre: Realistic Fiction
# of Pages: 359
RAC: Yes
Kit has been trained to be a killer since she was a small girl by her mother. Kit’s mother felt called to kill, but eventually felt like she was getting too close to getting caught so she retired and trained her daughter to believe she was merely performing a service. Kit truly believes killing is neither right nor wrong, but just is. By day she is the chipper private school girl who blends in everywhere and yet has no close friends. Once every few months, however, she visits a local coffee shop where there is a secret drop box in the bathroom wall where people deposit letters and cash to have the “perfect killer” dispose of their unwanted family and friends. She reads the letters and chooses which victims she feels most comfortable with and takes care of it in a way that no clues, DNA, or fingerprints are ever found. She leaves the letters at the crime scene so that the police know it was her. One day her mother invites the lead detective on the perfect killer case over for dinner and they strike up a friendship so that Kit can know where they are on the investigation, which is nowhere. Can she keep up this facade forever? Will the job ever bother her or have lingering effects?
This book is dark and yet written in a light way so that it appears like Kit is a very normal and sympathetic girl. The more you get to know the character, however, the more disturbing she really is. She is able to kill perfect strangers for money without feeling any remorse or blame in any way. What’s worse is it almost seems like a game to her. Fans of mystery books might enjoy the thrill of living vicariously through someone who truly does what she wants when she wants, but eventually it gets a bit old as you discover how scary someone like this actually is.
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