The Profiler The Profiler

The Profiler

My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths

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Publisher Description

In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting a room in her house, and quickly uncovered strong evidence that pointed to him -- but the police dismissed her as merely a housewife with an overactive imagination. It would be six years before her former boarder would be brought in for questioning, but the night Brown took action to solve the murder was the beginning of her life's work.

Pat Brown is now one of the nation's few female criminal profilers -- a sleuth who assists police departments and victims' families by analyzing both physical and behavioral evidence to make the most scientific determination possible about who committed a crime. Brown has analyzed many dozens of seemingly hopeless cases and brought new investigative avenues to light.

In The Profiler, Brown opens her case files to take readers behind the scenes of bizarre sex crimes, domestic murders, and mysterious deaths, going face-to-face with killers, rapists, and brutalized victims. It's a rare, up-close, first-person look at the real world of police and profilers as they investigate crimes -- the good and bad, the cover-ups and the successes.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2010
May 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grand Central Publishing
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
7.6
MB

Customer Reviews

MaureenM47 ,

Excellent look at profiling, justice ayatem

This book is a perfect mix of explaining the art and skill of profiling as well as giving a lot of insight on a certain type of crime, ones that many people still don’t understand because they look at suspects or motives too superficially. The author is also not afraid to call out aspects of the justice system or law enforcement when they are lazy, ego-driven, obtuse or politically motivated. She also mixes in just the right amount of biographical information and has a refreshing nonjudgmental tone and lack of hyperbole. The only issue I had was a small editing one — there is a tendency toward repetition of facts or confusions when relating a case. But overall, well-written, fascinating and informative.
This would be a great third piece in a trilogy with Marilee Strong’s “Erased” and Gavin de Becker’s “The Gift of Fear.”

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