The Killing Lessons: A brutally compelling serial killer thriller

Saul Black

May 2015 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

'Do not read this. No reader deserves to be terrified like this' Linwood Barclay

'Explosively exciting' SUNDAY MIRROR

'Brutally compelling serial killer thriller... told at blistering pace' DAILY MAIL


'Completely mesmerizing!' Lisa Gardner



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.

Ratings and reviews

Very dark but very very good. I read it in a day, the characters are fantastic. Would recommend for those who like to be scared by a book so they read it quicker, like me :)

Before I read this, 'Armadale‘ by Wilkie Collins was the most depressing book I had ever encountered. No longer.

Everytime I thought they caught Leon he got away.u need to read this book

About the author

Saul Black has written numerous acclaimed novels under his real name Glen Duncan, including The Last Werewolf trilogy and I, Lucifer. He lives in London.