Rule One—Nothing is right, nothing is wrong.
Rule Two—Be careful.
Rule Three—Fight using your legs whenever possible, because they’re the strongest part of your body. Your arms are the weakest.
Rule Four—Hit to kill. The first blow should be the last, if at all possible.
Rule Five—The letters are the law.
Kit takes her role as London’s 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 life—the only way of life she has ever known.
But 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.
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.
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I wrote this review right after taking 4 days to read Dear Killer. Which is really slow for me. And it will be 4 days that I will never get back. I wish I could tell you that I loved this book. But, then that would be a lie. I did love it to start out with. I thought it was going to be one of those books where the killer turns good and redeems themselves. But, this book is not one of those.
So the run down: The book starts out with the main character named Kit. She is the Perfect Killer as the newspapers have deemed her. And she really was a great character. Her mother who was also a murderer in her time was a great side character as well was Alex. The real issue I had came down to the plot. The plot was wonderful to start out with. You begin to read a book unlike any other that is out on the market which was great. But, in the end it was just lacking that draw to a final conclusion. The twist in this book were ok at best. I think that the author should have done something a little different with Kit. She doesn't really grow or anything as a character in this book and the ending of this didn't make much sense to me.
Other things I seen wrong with the story were about the letters that she would leave behind. You can't tell me that if I would write a Dear Killer letter then she killed that person I wanted dead. That I wouldn't be carried off to jail for hiring a hit man. I understand that this book was set in London but still. You can't tell me that they don't have some kind of rule over there like here. The other thing with the letters is that everyone knows how to contact her via her mailbox in some restaurant but the police have never heard of it. If its not going around how do so many people (over 50 murders by the end of the book) know where to find it. And this is set in this time period! So those two things were just to far fetched for me.
The next far fetched thing was the fact that she integrated herself into the police investigation. I mean if she would have been in college to become a CSI or something I could understand why Alex would have gotten her involved. But she was just the daughter of a woman who invited him to dinner.
I think this book would have been much better if it would have been set in a different time period. Like before the invention of luminal. That stuff they can spray on an area that makes blood glow. I think it would have made more sense that the police wouldn't have heard about the mail box as well. Since they wouldn't have Facebook and twitter to chat about it. Or TV for that matter.
So sadly this book ended up being a really pointless read. With an ending that just felt like the author didn't know what do with it.
PS this part of the about this book really makes you think that this is one of those things were the bad turn good. I was really unhappy that that was not the case. This part of this is very misleading.
*But 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.*
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