An impressive debut novel by Vera Kurian, a psychologist living in Washington, DC. 

She writes what she knows in this novel.

It’s historically and technologically up-to-date. Mobile phone apps are central to the plot.

Studying young psychopaths at University — what could go wrong?

Meet Chloe Sevre.

She’s a freshman honor student, a legging-wearing hot girl next door, who also happens to be a psychopath. Her hobbies include 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 for 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. …

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