“Fierce fun wild and enraging.” —Chris Whitaker New York Times bestselling author of
All the Colors of the Dark “A real joy to read . . . Killer Potential earns Deitch a spot on
the ‘new novelists to watch’ list.” — Associated Press An electric debut novel following two
young women after they flee a bloody murder scene in the Hollywood Hills and quickly become a
runaway media sensation Destined for greatness wanted for murder. . . A scholarship kid with
straight As and big dreams Evie Gordon always thought she was special that she’d be someone.
But after graduating from an elite university she finds herself drowning in debt and working
as an SAT tutor for the super-rich of Los Angeles. Everything changes one Sunday when she
arrives for her weekly lesson at the Victors’ Beverly Hills estate and in lieu of a bored
teenager finds the bloody remains of the parents strewn through their beautiful back garden
and a woman crying for help within a closet. As Evie works to free her the two are spotted—and
within moments they go from bystanders to suspects to fugitives. Suddenly at the heart of a
manhunt and accompanied by a mysterious woman who refuses to speak Evie knows the only way to
clear her name is to find the real killer. But first she’ll have to break down the barriers of
her companion who is quickly becoming the most important person in Evie’s upside-down life.
Their breathless spree takes them across the U.S. as developments in the case shock the nation
and the press runs wild with Evie’s story: a gifted kid turned killer. She's now on the cover
of every magazine and newspaper—anointed the new Charles Manson a bloodthirsty ninety-nine
percenter looking to start a class war. Evie is finally someone . By turns cuttingly hilarious
and deeply insightful Killer Potential is a strikingly original debut. A literary novel with
the page-turning intensity of a thriller that asks timely questions about our belief in the
romance of social mobility and how the stories we’re sold about our potential can shape the
course of our lives.
