As soon as the new Kirsten McDougall novel dropped into my inbox, I knew that nothing but the boldest design work would do it justice. The book is tense, witty, sharp, and packed with ideas and motifs that lent themselves to a strong cover. The trouble was picking which to focus on.

She’s A Killer is set in a near-future New Zealand where rich foreigners are fleeing to escape the effects of climate disaster. Against a backdrop of food shortages, societal unrest and fear, we meet Alice, a thirty-something university administrator with a near-genius IQ and an imaginary friend. When Alice meets Pablo, a so-called ‘wealthugee’ (wealthy refugee), she thinks she’s found a way out of her dull existence, but when she meets his teenage daughter she’s forced to think again.