Deadly Lessons — Shirley B. Garrett

Deadly Lessons is a 2018 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award finalist.

Dr. Charlene “Charlie” Stone's first case with the HPD Sexual Assault Task Force, involves an urgent hunt for a fiendish sexual sadist called the Trainer, who is kidnapping professional women with long, blond hair and programming them to obey men. The Trainer targets Charlie as his next victim. Her guile and courage are tested as never before when she becomes trapped in his lair.

Deadly Lessons is the second novel in the Charlie Stone crime-thriller series. The first is Deadly Compulsion, where Charlie Stone begins her career as a part-time profiler for the Huntsville Police Department and pursues the Huntress, a serial killer who lures men back to their homes to murder them.

"A stunning portrait of a deranged killer and a woman determined to find him.” J.D. Frost, author of the Moses Palmer crime thrillers.