Publisher's Synopsis
Deadly Lessons
A Literary Erotic Thriller
By Maddox Kane
What begins as an investigation becomes a seduction. What begins as a murder becomes a mirror.
Detective Knox Mercer has spent his career burying the case that broke him. But when a student is found ritualistically murdered on the campus of Hawthorne University-his body posed like a memory Knox can't forget-the past returns with surgical precision.
At the center of it all is Dr. Julian Voss: criminologist, theorist, and academic god. He lectures on the intimacy of violence with the calm of a surgeon and the charisma of a cult leader. His students adore him. One of them may have killed for him. And when Knox starts finding photos of himself in the crime scene archives, he realizes this isn't an investigation.
It's a performance.
Each murder reenacts a lesson. Each victim is a message. And the line between detective and subject, predator and prey, begins to blur. Beneath the blood and chalk and closed-door lectures, something hungrier is unfolding-part study, part seduction, part confession.
Unflinching, erotic, and psychologically brutal, Deadly Lessons is a descent into obsession, where the most dangerous crimes aren't committed with knives-but with intimacy
Some murders are meant to be solved.
Others are meant to be survived.
