The Killing Lessons : A Novel

"Saul Black squeezes every last ounce of suspense out of this story... The Killing Lessons is state-of-the-art in the ever-darkening serial-killer genre." -- The Washington Post In their isolated Colorado farmhouse, Rowena Cooper and her two children prepare to wait out a blinding snowstorm. Two violent predators walk through the door. For these men, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey--and they still have many miles to go, and lives to sacrifice, before their work is done. But for the Cooper family, nothing will ever be the same. . . "a nail-biter." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Meanwhile, San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart can't stop thinking about the victims--women abducted, tortured, and left with a seemingly random series of objects inside them. The case has brought her to the edge psychological destruction. And she's losing hope of making a breakthrough before that happens. "Compelling, addictive...A master class in suspense." -- Bookpage 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. . . This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.