Killer Potential

<p><b>'Compelling, creepy and cool . . . a Thelma & Louise for our times'</b><br><b>PAULA HAWKINS, author of<i> The Girl on the Train</i></b><br><br><b>'Fierce, fun, wild and enraging'</b><br><b>CHRIS WHITAKER, author of<i> All The Colours of the Dark</i></b><br><br><b>'Razor-sharp writing, frenzied pace, twists and turns - prepare for impact!'</b><br><b>BONNIE GARMUS, author of<i> Lessons In Chemistry </i></b><br><br><b>'Pump this into my veins. A modern day Thelma & Louise for lesbians who make Das Kapital jokes'</b><br><b>MADELEINE GRAY, author of<i> Green Dot</i></b><br><br><b><i>Decisions were made: I made them. Violence was done: I did it. Crime scenes were fled: I fled them. People were hurt: I hurt them. Someone was loved: I loved them. Not everything I did was bad. Just most of it.<br></i></b><br> A scholarship kid with straight As and massive potential, Evie Gordon always thought she was special, that she'd be someone.<br><br> But after graduating from an elite university, she finds herself drowning in debt and working as a private tutor to the children of Los Angeles's super-rich.<br><br> Everything changes when Evie arrives at the Victor family's lavish mansion for her weekly lesson to discover, not the bored teenager she excepted, but pure carnage: the bloody remains of Mr and Mrs Victor sullying their beautiful back garden, and a woman crying for help from within the walls of the house.<br><br> Within moments, Evie and the woman go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives.<br><br> Suddenly at the heart of a nation-wide manhunt, Evie finds that her mysterious companion, who refuses to speak, has quickly become the most important person in her upside-down life. Meanwhile, the press runs wild with Evie's story - anointing her the new Charles Manson, a blood thirsty ninety-nine percenter looking to start a class war.<br><br> Evie is - finally and disastrously - someone.<br><br> Droll, dark and deeply insightful, <i>Killer Potential </i>is an edge-of-your-seat break-neck ride, a queer love story, and a darkly funny critique of the horrors of late capitalism and how the stories we're sold about our potential can shape the course of our lives.</p>