They Never Learn

By Layne Fargo

Book Overview

From the author of the "raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless" (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve--perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain.

Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder.

Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the worst man at Gorman University--professor, student, or otherwise--and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she's avoided drawing attention to herself...but as she's preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Dr. Clark insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge. Everything's going according to her master plan...until she loses control with her latest victim, putting her secret life at risk of exposure.

Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her emotionally abusive father, all Carly wants is to focus on her studies and fade into the background. Her new roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident--everything Carly wishes she could be--and the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay...and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality.

"A gorgeously written ragestorm of a thriller" (Wendy Heard, author of The Kill Club), They Never Learn is a razor-sharp feminist serial killer story that you won't be able to put down.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982132035
• ISBN13: 9781982132033
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Making the world safer, for women

When serial killers go after other predators, it makes them easier to like kinda like how the show Dexter is so popular and you can root for him, I found it not too hard to see how Scarlett was making the Gorman campus safer, for women anyways. Jumping between Carly at her first year at Gorman and what happens with her roommate Allison to Scarlett and her vigilante crusade to rid the area of men who prey on women, you can really see why Scarlett is the way she is and while she is a bit extreme, I like her and rooted for her even as the detectives start circling in after on of her kills ends up messier than expected. So, lots of tense moments and sections that do not shy away from what men can do to women, especially how the way society was and still kinda is with victim blaming and saying how it is unfair to ruin a guy's life over one small indiscretion. I did enjoy the twist and I was quite satisfied with the ending. This was a thrilling crusade to rid the world of predators and I really enjoyed reading to see how Scarlett can make a difference, even if it included a few bodies and blood and fire, to make the world a safer place.

Shocking twist and turns

This book keeps you thinking. You feel for all the characters. Well most of them :)