Deadly Animals

Explore what the use of impersonations reveals about the characters and what they hope to gain through their constructed personas, including the nonhuman persona of the Wolf.

The text uses many conventions of the detective fiction genre; in what ways does it subvert them, too?

Ava describes the killer as her “fatal inversion.” What makes Ava and the killer similar and different? What prevents Ava from becoming like the destructive killer?