Homo Superiors

“Homo Superiors…is a seduction into evil. L.A. Fields’ prose burns like an underground fire. Relentless, and more dangerous than you realize until it’s too late.” - Laird Barron, author of X’s for Eyes and Man With No Name

Two college seniors: Noah, frail like the hollow-boned birds he enjoys watching, caged by his intellect, and by his sense that the only boy as smart as himself is his best friend; Ray who has spent years aping leading men so that his every gesture is suave, but who has become bored with petty cheats and tricks, and now, during summer break in Chicago, needs something momentous to occupy himself.
Noah’s text says, I’ve found some candidates for murder. Ray chuckles and knows that Noah sent the message to cheer him. Both boys realize they stand apart from others their age. One lacks social graces, the other has perfected being charming. Both are too willing to embark on a true challenge of their superiority but neither realizes what such a crime will do because no matter how they see themselves, how they need one another, they still possess the same emotions of H. sapiens.

"Normally in literature, it’s quite a challenge to get a reader to support protagonists who commit crimes, especially as casually as these two do, but Fields woos the reader into the characters’ court quite successfully." - Windy City Reviews

"Homo Superiors is a fascinating examination of the psychology of the criminal mind that achieves its effect by reimagining the notorious killers Leopold and Loeb as modern day teens. Particularly impressive is how Fields evokes the mood and tone of early Brett Easton Ellis, giving us two highly intelligent boys whose lives have been made vapid by privilege. As one boy becomes addicted to criminal acts of ever-increasing magnitude, the other finds himself a willing pawn, drawn into the scheme out of a frustrated same-sex desire. Homo Superiors offers complex insights into the darker aspects of a friendship where no one is innocent." - Sean Eads, author and Lambda Literary Award finalist for The Survivors

"L.A. Fields stuns with her latest novel, Homo Superiors, in which she modernizes America’s first 'Crime of the Century,' the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. Homo Superiors is a gripping and shocking tale, but a murderous obsession I enjoyed reading and I know others will as well." - Cina Pelayo, author of Loteria