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Bestsellers
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Unnatural Causes
- By: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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As the country's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead....
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Boring!
- By Zoesmydog on 06-21-19
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Without Conscience
- The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
- By: Robert D. Hare
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines....
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When I gave up on books that supposedly would...
- By Douglas on 03-01-12
By: Robert D. Hare
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The Confidence Game
- Why We Fall for It...Every Time
- By: Maria Konnikova
- Narrated by: Maria Konnikova
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Think you can’t get conned? Think again. The New York Times best-selling author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes explains how to spot the con before they spot you. A compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artists....
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The Confidence Game = major disappointment
- By Nicole Kiess on 02-16-16
By: Maria Konnikova
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Duped
- Why Innocent People Confess–and Why We Believe Their Confessions
- By: Saul Kassin PhD
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This landmark book reveals the psychology behind why innocent men, women, and children, intensely stressed and befuddled by the promises, threats, trickery, and deception of a police interrogation, are duped into confession, no matter how horrific the crime....
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Everyone should read this
- By David E. Arnold on 02-28-24
By: Saul Kassin PhD
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Decoding Madness
- A Forensic Psychologist Explores the Criminal Mind
- By: Richard Lettieri
- Narrated by: David Mack
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Dealing with some of the most heinous crimes imaginable, forensic neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Richard Lettieri gives a behind-the-scenes look at criminal psychology through case studies from his over 30 years of experience....
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VERY Interesting, Enjoyable and Insightful
- By Erik on 01-13-23
By: Richard Lettieri
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H. H. Holmes
- The True History of the White City Devil
- By: Adam Selzer
- Narrated by: David Bendena
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of the murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains....
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The truth
- By Anna Fluellen on 09-08-17
By: Adam Selzer
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Unnatural Causes
- By: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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As the country's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secrets of the dead....
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Boring!
- By Zoesmydog on 06-21-19
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Without Conscience
- The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
- By: Robert D. Hare
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers that increasingly populate our movies, television programs, and newspaper headlines....
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When I gave up on books that supposedly would...
- By Douglas on 03-01-12
By: Robert D. Hare
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The Confidence Game
- Why We Fall for It...Every Time
- By: Maria Konnikova
- Narrated by: Maria Konnikova
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Think you can’t get conned? Think again. The New York Times best-selling author of Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes explains how to spot the con before they spot you. A compelling investigation into the minds, motives, and methods of con artists....
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The Confidence Game = major disappointment
- By Nicole Kiess on 02-16-16
By: Maria Konnikova
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Duped
- Why Innocent People Confess–and Why We Believe Their Confessions
- By: Saul Kassin PhD
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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This landmark book reveals the psychology behind why innocent men, women, and children, intensely stressed and befuddled by the promises, threats, trickery, and deception of a police interrogation, are duped into confession, no matter how horrific the crime....
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Everyone should read this
- By David E. Arnold on 02-28-24
By: Saul Kassin PhD
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Decoding Madness
- A Forensic Psychologist Explores the Criminal Mind
- By: Richard Lettieri
- Narrated by: David Mack
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Dealing with some of the most heinous crimes imaginable, forensic neuropsychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Richard Lettieri gives a behind-the-scenes look at criminal psychology through case studies from his over 30 years of experience....
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VERY Interesting, Enjoyable and Insightful
- By Erik on 01-13-23
By: Richard Lettieri
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H. H. Holmes
- The True History of the White City Devil
- By: Adam Selzer
- Narrated by: David Bendena
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of the murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains....
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The truth
- By Anna Fluellen on 09-08-17
By: Adam Selzer
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Inside the Criminal Mind (Newly Revised Edition)
- By: Stanton Samenow
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant, no-nonsense profile of the criminal mind, newly updated in 2022 to include the latest research, effective methods for dealing with hardened criminals, and an urgent call to rethink criminal justice from expert witness Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D....
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Dr. Samenow explains the persistent criminal mind
- By Carrie Espinoza Villanueva on 10-10-17
By: Stanton Samenow
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The Devil You Know
- Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion
- By: Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne
- Narrated by: Gwen Adshead
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years of experience in providing therapy to people in prisons and secure hospitals who have committed serious offenses, Dr. Gwen Adshead provides fresh and surprising insights....
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Extraordinary book about the power of an outstanding psychiatrist
- By Lucy D on 10-29-24
By: Gwen Adshead, and others
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RedHanded
- An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick
- By: Suruthi Bala, Hannah Maguire
- Narrated by: Suruthi Bala, Hannah Maguire, Denise Mina
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Based off Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala's popular podcast of the same name, RedHanded explores real-life true-crime cases to help answer once and for all if a killer is born or made....
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Deeply investigated, full of light
- By Amy Castenell on 10-08-21
By: Suruthi Bala, and others
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Dark Dreams
- A Legendary FBI Profiler Examines Homicide and the Criminal Mind
- By: Roy Hazelwood, Stephen G Michaud
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood brings us deep into the minds of his prey, the world's most dangerous sexual criminals, and reveals the extent to which these individuals permeate our society....
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FINALLY SOME NEW AND INTERESTING CASES!
- By leelee8888 on 10-16-16
By: Roy Hazelwood, and others
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns
- By: Mitzi Szereto - editor
- Narrated by: Holly Palance, Phil Thron
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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A collection of non-fiction accounts by international writers and experts on small-town true crime shows listeners that the real monsters aren’t hiding in the woods, they’re inside our towns....
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Crime in other countries is not my cup of tea.
- By Brenda on 01-03-21
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Zodiac Unmasked
- The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer Revealed
- By: Robert Graysmith
- Narrated by: Robert Graysmith
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Between December 1968 and October 1969, a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. After painstaking investigation and more than 30 years of research, Robert Graysmith finally exposes Zodiac's true identity....
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Comprehensive and well-structured
- By Buretto on 12-18-18
By: Robert Graysmith
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Lay Them to Rest
- On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
- By: Laurah Norton
- Narrated by: Laurah Norton
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to “getting the bad guy” behind bars, your best chance of success boils down to the strength of your evidence—and the forensic science used to obtain it....
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Enjoyable author, but not my style
- By Anonymous User on 11-21-23
By: Laurah Norton
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Conviction
- The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars
- By: Juan Martinez
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time....
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Never Understood His Questioning Technique Before
- By Dennis on 02-22-16
By: Juan Martinez
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A Dark Night in Aurora
- Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings
- By: William H. Reid MD MPH
- Narrated by: William H. Reid MD MPH
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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A Dark Night in Aurora uses the twenty-three hours of unredacted interview transcripts and Reid’s research to bring the listener inside the mind of a mass murderer. The result is chilling, gripping study of abnormal psychology and how a boy named Jimmy became a killer....
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A workmanlike effort, nothing especially groundbreaking to be found here.
- By jpme226 on 08-23-18
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How to Analyze People: Persuasion, and Dark Psychology - 3 Books in 1
- How to Recognize the Signs of a Toxic Person Manipulating You, and the Best Defense Against It
- By: James W Williams
- Narrated by: Sam Slydell
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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In this book, you will get a groundwork for what different types of persuasion and manipulation might be. You will learn the process of how people use these tactics to their advantage....
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The book gives a lot of tips and explanations.
- By Riley Kerr on 08-26-19
By: James W Williams
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Trigger Points
- Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America
- By: Mark Follman
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Award-winning journalist Mark Follman chronicles the decades-long search for identifiable profiles of mass shooters and brings listeners inside a groundbreaking method for preventing devastating attacks.
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this book is one of many to be read on this topic
- By NC on 11-15-22
By: Mark Follman
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Forensics
- What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
- By: Val McDermid
- Narrated by: Sarah Barron
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The dead talk - to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them....
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Crime Seen
- By Mark on 09-02-16
By: Val McDermid
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ShadowMan
- An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
- By: Ron Franscell
- Narrated by: Patty Nieman, Chris Berger
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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ShadowMan is the pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile to catch a serial killer....
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Excellent book,but heartbreaking subject matter.
- By Maureen Ohalleran on 03-04-22
By: Ron Franscell
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International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd Edition
- By: J. Reid Meloy - editor, Jens Hoffmann - editor
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 46 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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In recent history, planned violent attacks have persisted in the United States and abroad. These attacks have continued to illustrate the need for improved threat assessment and management efforts at local and national levels....
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Archaic Views
- By ricodiva on 11-22-23
By: J. Reid Meloy - editor, and others
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Aileen Wuornos
- The Damsel of Death (The Serial Killer Series, Book 4)
- By: Gisela K.
- Narrated by: Gisela K.
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Aileen Wuornos operated like no other female serial killer; she targeted strangers, shot them at point-blank range, and took their cars and personal belongings home as trophies to impress her lover with....
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Very well researched
- By Rachel V. on 05-25-23
By: Gisela K.
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Exposed
- The Secret Life of Jodi Arias
- By: Jane Velez-Mitchell
- Narrated by: Elizabeth White
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home....
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Great Narrator, Untrustworthy Writer
- By MaxMiniTV on 04-15-16
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Inside the Joker’s Mind
- Unraveling Batman's Nemesis and Its Implications for Philosophy and Psychology
- By: Eternia Publishing
- Narrated by: Adriaan Hellenberg
- Length: 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Throughout this audiobook's various chapters, listeners will explore the historical context of the Joker's creation, delve into the character's symbolic and iconic qualities, examine the psychological profile of the Joker, and analyze his relation to various philosophical theories....
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The Best New True Crime Stories
- Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge
- By: Mitzi Szereto
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Crimes of passion are both eerie and strangely tantalizing. This riveting anthology explores the question through some of the most compelling true-crime accounts and stories of obsession and vengeance....
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Meh. Good noise
- By Mike on 08-05-23
By: Mitzi Szereto
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The Seven Ages of Death
- A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life
- By: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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The heart-wrenchingly honest new book about life and death from forensic pathologist and best-selling author of Unnatural Causes, Dr Richard Shepherd....
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Excellent walk through death in the lifespan
- By Christopher on 11-19-24
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The Mind of a Murderer
- By: Richard Taylor
- Narrated by: Richard Taylor
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In his 26 years in the field, Richard Taylor has worked on well over a hundred murder cases, with victims and perpetrators from all walks of life....
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Narration ruins what I’m sure is a great book
- By leelee8888 on 02-11-21
By: Richard Taylor
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William Bonin
- The True Story of the Freeway Killer
- By: Jack Rosewood
- Narrated by: Gaius M. Thynne
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Victims of sadistic torture, the dead boys and young men had been raped and strangled, and their untimely deaths were eventually attributed to the Freeway Killer....
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Couldn't get past the narration
- By Snoz the Cat on 02-18-17
By: Jack Rosewood
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The Profiler
- My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
- By: Pat Brown, Bob A. Andelman
- Narrated by: Pat Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of Pat Brown and her family....
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"Profiler"
- By Sam on 06-17-10
By: Pat Brown, and others
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Hearts of Darkness
- Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
- By: Jana Monroe, Joe Navarro - foreword
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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For fans of Mindhunter and Criminal Minds, a chilling account of a woman facing down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs’s Clarice Starling....
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Disappointed
- By gary b. on 01-20-24
By: Jana Monroe, and others
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Dangerous Minds
- A Forensic Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand Violence
- By: Dr Taj Nathan
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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These are just some of the questions that forensic psychiatrist Dr Taj Nathan interrogates every day in his work with violent offenders....
By: Dr Taj Nathan