The Killing Lessons

Author Saul Black
Narrator Christina Delaine
Publisher Orion
Run Time 14 hours and 30 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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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 corpses - 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 slaughter at the Cooper farmhouse didn't quite go according to plan. There was a survivor, Rowena's 10-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 terrifying than what she's running from.

Read by Christina Delaine

(p) 2015 Macmillan Audio

Critics Review

‘Brutally compelling serial killer thriller… told at blistering pace.’
DAILY MAIL
‘Explosively exciting… The sheer brilliance of the prose and the pace of the action sweeps you up into a utterly believable world.’
SUNDAY MIRROR
Do not read this. No reader deserves to be terrified like this
Linwood Barclay
‘Duncan/Black’s superior scene-painting and psychological probing translate the mundane into the memorable. Similarly, the cliché of a serial-killing spree with a hidden logic is redeemed by the freshness of his characterisation of the seedy duo responsible.’
SUNDAY TIMES
Unbelievably good…this one has it all
Lee Child
‘The book is chilling and compulsive. It is exceptionally well written, with an excellent plot.’
TIMES
This is a firecracker of a tale that whips along so fast , it’s tempting to skip lines in eagerness to see where the plots heading. What stops you is the turn of phrase, which is so bright it can take your breath away.
METRO
‘Intelligent and moving as well as knuckle-whiteningly terrifying.’
SUNDAY EXPRESS
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 squad car on a high-speed pursuit, the breath-taking depictions of the characters, good and bad, or author Black’s inimitable style. My vote? All three
Jeffery Deaver
Completely mesmerizing! Black delivers a powerhouse of a thriller: two terrifying villains versus one damaged cop with numerous lives in the balance. Not to be missed
Lisa Gardner
‘I loved this book. I loved the way I was taken through the story with no holds barred…The pace left me breathless, the characters are convincing and the story is a real adrenalin rush.’
THE CRIME WARP
I found parts of the novel unbearable to read, but its pull is undeniable.
BOOKS OXYGEN
‘Like rubbernecking at an accident, you can’t tear your eyes away from this shockingly violent but compelling thriller.’
PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH

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