They Never Learn

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Simon and Schuster, Apr 20, 2021 - Fiction - 352 pages
From the author of the “raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless” (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author) Temper comes a dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve—perfect for fans of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain.

Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder.

Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the worst man at Gorman University—professor, student, or otherwise—and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself…but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Dr. Clark insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge. Everything’s going according to her master plan…until she loses control with her latest victim, putting her secret life at risk of exposure.

Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her emotionally abusive father, all Carly wants is to focus on her studies and fade into the background. Her new roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident—everything Carly wishes she could be—and the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay...and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality.

“A gorgeously written ragestorm of a thriller” (Wendy Heard, author of The Kill Club), They Never Learn is a razor-sharp feminist serial killer story that you won’t be able to put down.
 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
19
Section 3
24
Section 4
34
Section 5
44
Section 6
50
Section 7
66
Section 8
74
Section 21
172
Section 22
188
Section 23
212
Section 24
228
Section 25
234
Section 26
238
Section 27
242
Section 28
256

Section 9
78
Section 10
82
Section 11
88
Section 12
98
Section 13
102
Section 14
108
Section 15
118
Section 16
126
Section 17
132
Section 18
150
Section 19
156
Section 20
161
Section 29
266
Section 30
270
Section 31
275
Section 32
279
Section 33
288
Section 34
290
Section 35
292
Section 36
300
Section 37
310
Section 38
316
Section 39
330
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About the author (2021)

Layne Fargo is the author of the thrillers Temper and They Never Learn. She’s a Pitch Wars mentor, Vice President of the Chicagoland chapter of Sisters in Crime, and the cocreator of the podcast Unlikeable Female Characters. Layne lives in Chicago with her partner and their pets.

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