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Lovemurder / Saul Black.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Valerie Hart seriesPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 345 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250057419
  • 1250057418
Other title:
  • Love murder
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.92 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6102.L33345 L68 2017
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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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.

Originally published: London : Orion Books, 2016.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Library Journal Review

Det. Valerie Hart put away the beautiful, seductive Katherine Glass for six murders, but she was left on edge because Katherine's partner hadn't been caught. Now, six years later, Valerie is lured to a crime scene by a letter addressed to her from the accomplice, dubbed the "Man in the Mask." The letter urges Valerie to work with Katherine to decipher a series of clues to the next victim's identity. This case pushes Valerie to her limits not only as she navigates Katherine's manipulative yet highly educated mind but also as she realizes that this case may endanger her family and threaten her relationship with fellow officer Nick Blaskovitch. Verdict In his second novel to feature Valerie Hart (after The Killing Lessons), Black spins a poetic and enthralling tale of love and psychotic serial killers. The relationship between detective and killer is reminiscent of Chelsea Cain's Heartsick and Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series. [See Prepub Alert, 1/23/17.]-Natalie Browning, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Coll. Lib., Richmond © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publishers Weekly Review

Black's riveting follow-up to 2015's The Killing Lessons puts a fresh spin on the familiar scenario of a cop drawn into a game of cat and mouse by an imprisoned serial killer. San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart is called in to investigate a murder when a note addressed to Valerie is found taped to the victim's body. Years earlier, Valerie put beautiful and brilliant Katherine Glass ("the most hated woman in America") behind bars for a series of brutal videotaped murders. Now, Katherine's still-at-large partner in crime demands that she be released, or the killings will continue. He leaves a series of elaborate clues that only Katherine can decipher, giving Valerie no choice but to engage with the alluring killer. Black (a pseudonym for writer Glen Duncan) explores themes of love and trust, and doesn't shy away from Valerie's complex emotional world. Sharp plotting and snappy dialogue propel the action to an exciting conclusion, though readers should be prepared for graphic violence, especially early on. 75,000 announced first printing. Agent: Jane Gelfman, Gelfman Schneider Literary Agency. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Kirkus Book Review

A serial killer resurfaces after six years and targets victims connected in some way to the cop who captured his partner.Black (The Killing Lessons, 2015) is back with his sophomore effort under this nameas Glen Duncan, he spilled blood through werewolves and vampires (By Blood We Live, 2014, etc.). Also back is Valerie Hart, his tough, attractive San Francisco homicide detective. When she nabbed the "exquisitely beautiful" Katherine Glass, the killer's male partner remained at large. The couple had money, looks, and brains, which they used to play videotaped sex and sadism games with their victims before the torture ended in death. More games are afoot when a raped, mutilated, murdered woman is found with a note addressed to Valerie promising more victims while Katherine remains in prison. (Yes, she's wearing orange in the new Black!) Why her partner waited six years to spring her slowly becomes clear in otherwise mysterious one-page italic chapters. When a package of complex clues to the next victim arrives for Valerie, she is forced to seek Katherine's aid in solving them. As a psychological thriller, this one has the added touch of Valerie's prison interviews with Katherine, who feels an affinity with the cop, knows her lover, and constantly pokes into her mind. This Katherine's intellectual toying suggests Sharon Stone's Catherine in Basic Instinct. Black writes tension-release like a rock-ballad composer, with high-stress episodes suddenly visited by homely rumination. Much of the monstrous violence is offstage but not all, and the suggestions alone are strong enough. A surprisingly big clue is dropped early on, but it's not necessarily a spoiler and may even have been intentional in this crafty piece of plotting. Black is a clever fellow, not least in Katherine's mental acrobatics on the concept of evil. A high-grade thriller strong on character, police procedure, and page-flipping tension. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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SAUL BLACK is the author of The Killing Lessons and lives in London.
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