Lovemurder

Black, Saul

ISBN 10: 1427285470 ISBN 13: 9781427285478

Publisher: Macmillan Audio, 2017

Synopsis

When she’s called to the murder scene, the last thing San Francisco Homicide detective Valerie Hart is expecting is for Katherine Glass to walk back into her life. Six years earlier, revulsion and fascination had gripped the nation in equal measure, as beautiful, intelligent, charming—and utterly evil—Katherine Glass had been convicted on six counts of Murder One. But the freshly-mutilated corpse in the ground-floor apartment bears all the hallmarks of Katherine’s victims. And then there’s the note, with its chilling implications. Addressed to Valerie.

To stop the slaughter, Valerie has no choice. She must ask Katherine Glass to help her decipher the killer’s twisted message. But that means re-entering the pitch-black labyrinth that is Katherine’s mind, and this time Valerie isn’t so sure which one of them will survive.

"Christina Delaine narrates this complicated story of violence, sex, and suspense at a breakneck pace. Delaine demonstrates her talents as a narrator through realistic portrayals of a dizzying cast of male and female characters, both criminals and cops." - AudioFile

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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)

Knuckle-whiteningly terrifying. (Sunday Express)

Hard, fast and dark. (Sunday Sport)

Brimming with stomach-churning violence, spine-tingling psychological tension, black humour and fast-paced action, these pulsating, brutal, graphic stories, written from the darkest corners of crime fiction are not for the faint-hearted ... Saul dishes up a complex, clever and compelling chiller-thriller as Valerie plays cat-and-mouse with a ruthless murderer and an enigmatic female accomplice whose motives remain electrifyingly uncertain and menacing ... Writing with his trademark flair, intelligence and fluidity, Saul turns the tense, unnerving confrontations between the inscrutable Katherine and the cool-headed Valerie into a series of edge-of-the-seat show-stoppers ... Intriguing, unsettling and utterly compulsive, this is a series that could run and run. (Lancashire Evening Post)

An easy read, with a compelling plot that develops atpace until its chilling climax. (Crime Scene)

Black is British but with an authentic American thriller style, his darkly poetic descriptive touch creates a stealthy, sinister mood, that builds to an unbearably tense climax ...the suspense is electric. (Peterborough Telegraph)

Book Description

The second spine-chilling serial-killer thriller featuring homicide detective Valerie Hart from the author of the critically-acclaimed THE KILLING LESSONS

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1427285470
• ISBN 13: 9781427285478
• Binding: Audio CD