Killing lessons/saul black

This novel breaks brilliant.

Its hard to tell whats 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 Blacks inimitable style.

My vote? All three.

-Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude CreekIn 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 Coopers isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that its the end of everything.

For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, its 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 shes losing hope of making a breakthrough before that happens.

But the murders at the Cooper farmhouse didnt quite go according to plan.

There was a survivor, Rowenas 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 shes 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.