The Killing Lessons

By Saul Black

Book Overview

"This novel breaks brilliant. It's hard to tell what's the best part of The Killing Lessons: the sweaty-palm plot that races along like a squadcar on a high-speed pursuit, the breathtaking depictions of the characters, good and bad, or author Black's inimitable style. My vote? All three." -Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude Creek

In their isolated country house, a mother and her two children prepare to wait out a blinding snowstorm. Two violent predators walk through the door. Nothing will ever be the same.

When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done.
For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims-women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly random series of objects inside them-has brought her from obsession to the edge of physical and psychological destruction. And she's losing hope of making a breakthrough before that happens.
But the murders at the Cooper farmhouse didn't quite go according to plan. There was a survivor, Rowena's ten-year-old daughter Nell, who now holds the key to the killings. Injured, half-frozen, terrified, Nell has only one place to go. And that place could be even more dangerous than what she's running from.
In this extraordinary, pulse-pounding debut, Saul Black takes us deep into the mind of a psychopath, and into the troubled heart of the woman determined to stop him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250133548
• ISBN13: 9781250133540
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

My favorite book this year!

If you need a book to keep you wanting more this is the one! I couldn't put it down.

Not what I expected, misleading summary

Summary is misleading, isn't exactly what the book is about. Not many questions, too open with character motives/thoughts. Typical murder/detective book.

An excellent book, it never lets up. I couldnt stop reading.