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Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist uses the latest scientific research to offer a more enlightened and nuanced explanation for why people behave so badly and how we can prevent evil acts by understanding more profoundly how such acts come about - and what truly makes us evil.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Find out what truly creates and defines a psychopath, from the leading expert who helped to create Killing Eve's Villanelle. Dr. Mark Freestone has worked on some of the most interesting, infamous and disturbing cases of psychopathology in recent years, and now shares his phenomenal insight into the minds of violent criminals. Angela "the Remorseless", a rare female psychopath, casually confessed to murder on national television without a hint of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Evelyn Talbot knows that a psychopath can look perfectly normal. She was only sixteen when her own boyfriend Jasper imprisoned and tortured her -- and left her for dead. Now an eminent psychiatrist who specializes in the criminal mind, Evelyn is the force behind Hanover House, a maximum-security facility located in a small Alaskan town. Her job puts her at odds with Sergeant Amarok, who is convinced that Hanover is a threat to his community . . ....
Author
Publisher
Sekotia
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Las mujeres, como los hombres, son también capaces de matar, de planificar el acto criminal por motivos tan emocionales como la venganza, la avaricia o los celos. Raramente el móvil es la agresión o la defensa propia: la inferioridad física coloca a la mujer en posición de desventaja en una situación de confrontación directa, lo que le lleva a usar formas más sibilinas y astutas. César Alcalá -biógrafo e historiador- y Alicia García -psiquiatra...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 33
Language
English
Description
While LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis investigates the murder of a John Doe in an upscale LA home, he calls on psychologist Alex Delaware to untangle the web of corrupted love, greed, and broken trust that is exposed.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Beginning in 1994, the author began recording stories of 50 incarcerated felons--17 of them were still in prison 20 years later. The men discuss what it means to commit a serious crime and be confined. The author identifies circumstances that ruin some prisoners and save others and presents insights for possible improvements in the criminal justice system"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material. In each of the cases the inmate speaks openly about themselves and reflects on their life and their crimes. To gain a complete picture of the impact of the murders, the authors spoke to...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A journey into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel, and their trial by daylight and doctors. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what is sane, what is mad or simply bad? Through court and asylum records, letters and newspaper accounts, this book brings to life some sensational trials between 1870 and 1914, a period when the psychiatric professions were consolidating their hold on our understanding of what is human....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock, Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff -- a serial murderer who was called "too intelligent to be killed" -- and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind"--
15) Planet terror
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A small town sheriffs' department has to deal with an outbreak of murderous, infected people called "sickos." Cherry Darling meets up again with her old lover, El Wray, just as their Texas town is being overrun by "sickos" with festering sores turning them into zombies. Cherry has El Wray's jacket, which she took with her when she left and he keeps trying to explain how he looked for it for two weeks and she keeps interrupting his story. Gun-legged...
16) Deadly target
Author
Series
Rocky Mountain courage volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Crime psychologist turned podcaster Erin Larson agrees to assist a county detective-who also happens to be her ex-in finding the answers to a cold case that has suddenly warmed up. The deeper they dig the more dangerous the situation gets. The stunning truth, once revealed, will change their lives forever"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this world, Dr Charlotte Stone is an expert psychologist, helping to catch serial killers. In the next world, Charlotte's ghostly lover - wrongly executed killer Michael Garland - is facing death yet again: the ultimate annihilation of his soul. Can Charlie prove Michael's innocence and rescue him from total oblivion? A stranger has turned up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia - a man who could be Michael's identical twin. But the resemblance is only skin...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. The largest manhunt in Montana's...
Author
Series
Laszlo Kreizler mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kreizler, the Alienist, investigates the kidnapping of the baby daughter of the wife of a Spanish diplomat, in the process uncovering a fiendish woman who has already murdered a number of children.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As a string of high profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief "the King of Diamonds" because he eluded police and the FBI for more than a decade."--
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