DEAR KILLER

The novel is about seventeen years old Kit Ward, London's most famous serial killer since Jack the Ripper. She kills on request. People leave anonymous letters with the names of requested victims along with appropriate payment in an anonymous mailbox and she complies with their wishes. She believes in moral nihilism, nothing is inherently right and nothing is inherently wrong and so she kills mercilessly, without regret or judgment. She is content. But things begin to unravel when she opens a letter one day to find the name of an acquaintance of hers, a classmate. At about the same time, she's introduced to the policeman in charge of investigating her murders. As she murders her way through the dark streets of London, she befriends the detective and her intended victim and becomes close with both of them. But these strange relationships, along with other dangerous entanglements with another classmate, a singer, a teacher, her mother, and a businessman, prove to have their price. Katherine Ewell is seventeen years old and last year was one of fifty finalists out of five thousand entries in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest (this is an open contest, not YA). She attended the invitational Iowa Young Writer's Studio and in addition, she has the significant distinction of being named a California Arts Scholar and has been awarded the Governor's Medallion for artistically talented youth. She is truly a writer.