They Never Learn

Author of Temper, a USA TODAY #1 novel that was described as "raw, ingenious, and utterly fearless" by Wendy Walker, comes a powerful psychological thriller about two women who give evil men precisely what they deserve.

Scarlett Clark is an outstanding professor of English. She's more skilled at escaping punishment, however.

Each year, she looks out the worst guy in Gorman University and schemes to bring about his just punishment. She's managed to keep herself under wraps because of her careful preparation, but just as she's getting ready for her largest murder to far, the school begins to investigate the increasing number of bodies on campus. Scarlett charms Dr. Mina Pierce, the head of the inquiry, and inserts herself into it, determined to keep her adversaries near. Everything is going as planned for her grand plan—that is, until she loses control with her most recent victim and exposes her covert existence.

Carly Schiller, a freshman at Gorman, is only trying to get by during her first year. Now that she is at last free of her emotionally abusive father, Carly just wants to disappear into her studies and concentrate on her academics. Her new roommate feels otherwise. Carly thinks she to be cool and self-assured like Allison Hadley, and the two girls immediately become a close connection. After Allison is sexually raped at a party, Carly is fixated on getting the assailant to pay and realizes her dreams of retaliation.

They Never Learn is a female serial killer thriller ideal for lovers of Killing Eve and Chelsea Cain, with Layne Fargo's signature "propulsive writing style" (Kirkus Reviews) and "sinister, of the moment" (Chicago Review of Books) suspense.