The queer feminist serial killer novel of the summer. They Never Learn is about good women who kill very bad men and get away with it - for fans of Bella Mackie and dark academia
'Deliciously satisfying... The feminist revenge thriller we need and deserve' Megan Collins
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'Such an incredible read!'
'Holy hell this book was fun!'
'Included all the things I like in fiction...vigilantism/revenge, cold, calculating women, themes of obsession, queer desire'
'Amazing twists!'
'You guys NEED TO READ THIS!'
He wasn't afraid of me. That was his first mistake.
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor and an even better serial killer. She's made it her mission in life to track down predatory men on campus and kill them and she's preparing for her biggest murder yet.
Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year at college - keeping her head down and focussing on work. But when her roommate Allison is assaulted at a party Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay.
When police start investigating the spate of local deaths, Scarlett starts to realise it's only a matter of time before her secret life is exposed and everything she's built comes crashing down with it...
'A gorgeously-written ragestorm of a thriller...will shock readers as much as it satisfies them' Wendy Heard
'Grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go' Samantha Downing
About the Author
Layne Fargo writes dark, dramatic stories that support women’s rights—and also women’s wrongs. She’s the author of psychological thrillers They Never Learn and Temper, co-author of the #1 bestselling Audible Original series Young Rich Widows (coming to paperback in spring 2024), and co-creator of the Unlikeable Female Characters podcast on Lit Hub Radio. Her first work of women’s fiction The Favorites is forthcoming from Chatto & Windus in January 2025.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Layne worked as a dramaturg, a librarian, and a corporate knowledge manager, and she still loves going down a good research rabbit hole. She lives in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood with a rescue pit bull and cat who are best friends, the only man she never wants to murder (well, almost never), and way too many books.
Industry Reviews
Grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go
-- Samantha Downing
Will delight revenge aficionados everywhere
-- Booklist
A fierce, feminist suspense… Spectacular and propulsive
-- Samantha M. Bailey
Darkly hypnotic and intensely compulsive. This is a psychological thriller of the highest order, a story that seeps into your thoughts like blood through floorboards
-- Criminal Element
Deliciously satisfying… The feminist revenge thriller we need and deserve
-- Megan Collins
A gorgeously-written ragestorm of a thriller…will shock readers as much as it satisfies them
-- Wendy Heard
