They Never Learn

How it reads

They Never Learn is thriller (feminist serial-killer thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told across two timelines. Its central concerns are justice, power and politics and secrets. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 378 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.