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Journalist Nadia Fezzani spent years probing the minds of serial killers in search of answers to unsettling questions: What went on in their heads as they prepared for their next crime? What drove them to murder not once, but habitually? Were they born killers, or had they begun as normal individuals and been somehow transformed into predators? Fezzani conducted groundbreaking, uncensored interviews with multiple-murderers behind bars. The account...
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Ziba Mackenzie volume 1
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Thomas & Mercer
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English
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Rush hour, London. A packed commuter train is torn apart in a collision. When a corpse is found bearing the gruesome signature of a serial killer dormant for twenty-five years, ex-special forces profiler Ziba MacKenzie is pulled into the hunt for the perpetrator. As the body count rises it becomes clear he's on a new spree. Ziba scrambles to profile the killer in the hope of predicting his next move. But time is running out. And the closer she gets...
3) The alienist
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
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English
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Dr. Laszlo Kreizler treats mental pathologies -- a controversial new field in 1896 -- and it may unlock the secret to another new phenomenon: a ritualistic serial killer who is targeting young boys in New York City.
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In 1990, a young woman was strangled near the home of Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected their boarder, and quickly uncovered strong evidence that pointed to him - but the police dismissed her. It would be six years before her former renter would be brought in for questioning, but the night Brown took action to solve the murder was the beginning of her life's work. She is now one of the nation's few female criminal profilers. Brown opens her...
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Avon
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Dr Connie Woolwine has five days to catch a killer. On a locked ward in the world's highest-security prison hospital, a scream shatters the night. The next morning, a nurse's body is found, and her daughter has been taken. A ransom must be paid, and the clock is ticking. Forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine is renowned for her ability to get inside the mind of a murderer. Now, she must go deep undercover among the most deranged and dangerous men on...
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"New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs, Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead, Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-the glamorous precision-dancing...
9) Hearts of darkness: serial killers, the behavioral science unit and my life as a women in the FBI
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Abrams Press
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An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her story for the first time.
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Berkley
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"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...
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