LOVEMURDER* - BLACK SAUL - MPS

THE KILLING LESSONS - SAUL BLACK - Orion

Nell'attimo in cui Rowena Cooper esce dalla cucina, calda e fragrante di biscotti, e trova davanti a sé i due uomini, una cosa sa con precisione: la sua vita non sarà più la stessa e la colpa è tutta sua. Anni passati a non chiudere porte e finestre, anni passati a sentirsi al sicuro e adesso eccola qui: sola, in una casa isolata nelle montagne del Colorado, un figlio di tredici anni nella stanza di sopra e la sua bambina di dieci nel giardino innevato, sul retro. Lei e il ragazzo sono spacciati, sono in trappola, ma la piccola Nell è fuori, può ancora scappare. 'Corri Nell, corri più che puoi!' Fuggi nel bosco con le tue gambette e non guardarti indietro. Finché non trovi qualcuno, finché... Per i due assassini quella è un'avventura facile, una crudeltà gratuita da aggiungere alla loro lista di orrori, unico peccato non aver massacrato anche la piccola mocciosa che si è buttata nella vegetazione. Per la detective Valerie Hart, invece, quella è la nuova pedina di un'indagine senza fine - sette vittime, nessun indizio - che è ormai la sua ossessione. Una striscia di morte insanguina il paese da anni e pare non avere nessuna logica se non per un macabro gioco legato alla casualità degli omicidi. Un gioco che viene dal passato, come se un insegnamento di terrore dovesse essere trasmesso per sempre.

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 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.
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.
In 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.

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 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.
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.
In 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.

In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the General's cruel yet seductive niece, Polina. In The Gambler, Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait.