Vera Kurian. (2021). Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel. Park Row Books.

Vera Kurian. 2021. Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel. Park Row Books.

Vera Kurian, Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel. Park Row Books, 2021.

Vera Kurian. Never Saw Me Coming: A Novel. Park Row Books, 2021.

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   • bioText: Vera Kurian is a writer and scientist. Her short fiction has been published in magazines such as Glimmer Train, Day One and The Pinch. She's lived in DC for most of her adult life and has a PhD in social psychology. Never Saw Me Coming is her first novel.
     
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Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel
Named a New York Times Best Thriller of 2021
"I devoured this riveting book through a day of travel...My desire to rush to the end clashed with my desire to savor every word. Who would be the last psychopath standing?" — New York Times Book Review
"Fresh, fast-paced and fiendishly clever! If you love watching true crime and wonder about the psychopaths among us, this is the book for you!" — Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author
You should never trust a psychopath. But what if you had no choice?
It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre... She's a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her.
Chloe is one of seven students at her DC-based college who are part of an unusual clinical study of psychopaths—students like herself who lack empathy and can't comprehend emotions like fear or guilt. The study, led by a renowned psychologist, requires them to wear smart watches that track their moods and movements.
When one of the students in the study is found murdered in the psychology building, a dangerous game of cat and mouse begins, and Chloe goes from hunter to prey. As she races to identify the killer and put her own plan for revenge into action, she'll be forced to decide if she can trust any of her fellow psychopaths—and everybody knows you should never trust a psychopath.
Don't miss Vera Kurian's chilling upcoming novel, A Step Past Darkness, where a group of six teenagers witness something tragic in an abandoned mine, which comes back to haunt them 20 years later.

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     September 1, 2021
     

     DEBUT Chloe Sevre, a university student with clinical psychopathy, is one of seven students who have been recruited to participate in a psychological study, which takes up much of her time. When she's not checking in for mandated counseling, participating in psychological experiments, or completing random mood surveys, she's plotting. For six long years, she's waited to deliver vengeance. Now she's not only in the same city as the boy who raped her but at the very same school. Then two of the study participants are murdered. Suddenly, it's not just about the boy she wants to kill, but the hunter picking off members of her program one at a time. VERDICT Readers won't want to put down this fast and engaging debut novel, and they'll root for the characters who've been cast as villains; Chloe is a particular paradox, simultaneously deplorable and charming. Kurian seamlessly interweaves multiple perspectives, though there are enough different points of view to overwhelm some readers. Those with a strong sense of justice might also be turned off by the fact that Chloe's crimes go unpunished.--Vicki Briner, Broomfield, CO

     Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     August 1, 2021
     Chloe Sevre has scored a full scholarship to John Adams University in DC in return for her participation in a groundbreaking study designed to influence the behavior of her and six other students diagnosed with psychopathy. Chloe plays along because it puts her in an excellent position to execute her carefully plotted revenge against frat boy Will for a childhood crime. Fellow participant Andre's diagnosis is based on a rage-filled spiral after his sister's death, and he also has a secret agenda. Chloe recognizes a kindred spirit in Will's fraternity brother, Charles, when he witnesses her making an impulsive, violent slip and proves his worth by helping to cover her tracks. When someone begins taking out the study's participants, Chloe realizes that if she's going to survive to kill Will, she needs Charles and Andre's help to take down the campus killer. Kurian expertly threads revenge and cat-and-mouse story arcs with Chloe's frank, show-stealing narration. This bar-raising debut exposes the gray areas in an often-misunderstood disorder and defies readers to root against its psychopathic antiheroes. Kurian's highly anticipated thriller will undoubtedly lead fans of Gone Girl, Jeff Lindsay's Dexter series, and Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels to hope for Chloe's return.

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     Starred review from August 1, 2021
     Chloe Sevre has scored a full scholarship to John Adams University in DC in return for her participation in a groundbreaking study designed to influence the behavior of her and six other students diagnosed with psychopathy. Chloe plays along because it puts her in an excellent position to execute her carefully plotted revenge against frat boy Will for a childhood crime. Fellow participant Andre's diagnosis is based on a rage-filled spiral after his sister's death, and he also has a secret agenda. Chloe recognizes a kindred spirit in Will's fraternity brother, Charles, when he witnesses her making an impulsive, violent slip and proves his worth by helping to cover her tracks. When someone begins taking out the study's participants, Chloe realizes that if she's going to survive to kill Will, she needs Charles and Andre's help to take down the campus killer. Kurian expertly threads revenge and cat-and-mouse story arcs with Chloe's frank, show-stealing narration. This bar-raising debut exposes the gray areas in an often-misunderstood disorder and defies readers to root against its psychopathic antiheroes. Kurian's highly anticipated thriller will undoubtedly lead fans of Gone Girl, Jeff Lindsay's Dexter series, and Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley novels to hope for Chloe's return.

     COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     September 27, 2021
     Eighteen-year-old Chloe Sevre, the narrator of Kurian’s splendid debut, is a freshman at John Adams University in Washington, D.C. She’s delighted to be in “a busy city with a relatively high murder rate,” because she has a plan that she has been nurturing for six years: to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who cruelly hurt her and lives in D.C. Chloe is one of seven students diagnosed as psychopaths receiving free tuition in exchange for participating in the university’s Multimethod Psychopathy Panel Study. It’s overseen by an earnest psychology professor who believes that, with the right direction, psychopaths can lead productive lives. Then one of the subjects of the study is fatally stabbed, and shortly thereafter another participant dies horribly. Chloe and two other surviving students, including the son of the Virginia state chairman for the Republican National Committee, realize they could be the next victims and do their best to band together to find the killer. Excellent pacing, sprightly narrative voices, and judicious dabs of wry humor make this a highly entertaining tale. Kurian’s refreshingly different slant on psychopathy marks her as a writer to watch. Agent: Rebecca Scherer, Jane Rotrosen Agency.

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Named a New York Times Best Thriller of 2021
"I devoured this riveting book through a day of travel...My desire to rush to the end clashed with my desire to savor every word. Who would be the last psychopath standing?" — New York Times Book Review
"Fresh, fast-paced and fiendishly clever! If you love watching true crime and wonder about the psychopaths among us, this is the book for you!" — Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author
You should never trust a psychopath. But what if you had no choice?
It would be easy to underestimate Chloe Sevre... She's a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. She spends her time on yogalates, frat parties and plotting to kill Will Bachman, a childhood friend who grievously wronged her.
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