{"product_id":"the-killing-lessons-9781250133540","title":"The Killing Lessons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This novel breaks brilliant. It's hard to tell what's the best part of \u003ci\u003eThe Killing Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e: 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 Black's inimitable style. My vote? All three.\" \u003cb\u003e-Jeffery Deaver, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Skin Collector\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSolitude Creek\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003eFor 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 she's losing hope of making a breakthrough before that happens.\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaul Black is a pseudonym for Glen Duncan, the author of \u003ci\u003eBy Blood We Live\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eI, Lucifer\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other books. He was chosen by both \u003ci\u003eArena\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e (London) as one of Britain's best young novelists. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50873213092114,"sku":"9781250133540","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab567af2-5071-4974-9bb8-71d4bc73a760.jpg?v=1737923949","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-killing-lessons-9781250133540","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}