Book Review: Hannah Deitch delivers twisty thrills with debut novel, ‘Killer Potential'

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When bestselling psychological thriller writer Paula Hawkins (“The Girl on the Train,” 2015) stamps the cover of your debut novel with “A Thelma & Louise for our times,” your career is off to a fast start.

The same goes for the plot pace of Hannah Deitch’s book, “Killer Potential,” which opens at a breakneck clip and doesn’t really slow down for about 200 pages. Evie Gordon is our narrator. She went to “a liberal arts school, stupidly expensive,” and is now working as an SAT tutor in pricey California zip codes. Her first sentence is a gem: “I was once a famous murderess.” The rest of the book reveals how she earned that appellation and the adverb “once.”

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