Waiting on Wednesday (September 4)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated.

Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell has an expected publication date of April 1, 2014, which is so far away.

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’s 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.

For some reason, I have a fascination with serial killers (or, at least, with the ones from Dexter, Hannibal, and I Hunt Killers), so this book seems like it’s right up my alley! I also love books that have morally ambiguous characters and blur the line between “good” and “evil” or “right” and “wrong” — after all, the distinction isn’t as clear-cut as we’d like it to be.

What books are you waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me a list or a link to your post in the comments below.