Criminal Minds

The trial of 25-year-old Casey Anthony for the death of her daughter, Caylee, was the most sensational case in America since O.J. Simpson’s. After being acquitted in July 2011, Ms. Anthony instantly became one of the most infamous women in the world. Dr. Keith Ablow distills tens of thousands of pages of documents he has obtained, his behind-the-camera, one-on one interviews, and his decades of experience in the world of forensic psychiatry to make sense of this troubled young woman.

Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes spent seven years in the company of the men behind the largest corporate crimes in history - from the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemers Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford.

Peer inside the mind of violent child molester Nathanael Bar-Jonah. Personal coded writings, life-long behaviors and victim testimony reveal how he operated and the difficulties law enforcement experienced stopping him. Eyes of a Pedophile follows Bar-Jonah’s evolution from religious beginnings to hunting children. Extensively researched medical and psychological details explain what is known about child predators and show you how to recognize pedophile behavior and protect children. Review Dr. Kuffel’s remarkable book is both readable and informative. Her story of the life of an SVP--...

You’ve heard of Pablo Escobar, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and Rafael Caro Quintero. Their names conjure ghoulish images of bloody streets, white powder, bundles of weed, and a particular flavor of machismo unique to ruthless druglords. But what of the drugladies, las narcas? For the first time, investigative reporter Deborah Bonello takes you behind the curtain to introduce the women at the helm of organized crime south of the US-Mexico border.

In 1994, after many years of movies and television portraying the evil side of the human psyche, Dr. David Canter published Criminal Shadows. Two decades on, its revolutionary descriptions of psychological profiling still helps to explain the actions of serial killers and psychopaths. These techniques can help police precisely identify and locate murderers and rapists, even those who have alluded capture for years.

Join the Coven as they seduce, entrance, and hypnotize their way through three soon-to-be-reformed bad girls! Join Claire, the ultimate playgirl and spoiled brat, as she falls prey to the Coven's erotic domination. Follow cynical lawyer Marlene as she loses her cynicism...and her inhibitions! When Vanessa meets sexy witches Helen and Grace, she'll soon trade in her life of crime for a life of erotic submission. Come along on a sensual ride through the Coven's first three adventures!

Taking us from secure hospital wards to high-security prisons to courtrooms, Dangerous Minds offers compelling and deeply compassionate accounts of 10 people whose lives have been shaped by violence. From the impact of traumatic events in childhood to the evolutionary and cultural influences on the emergence of the social mind, this book is an insider's account of the origins of violence that asks its readers to re-evaluate all that they think they know about the people society deems most dangerous.

Kisha’s career in the Los Angeles Police Department was unmatched. After being promoted to Chief Inspector of the Homicide Division faster than anyone before her, Kisha took one step further. Without ever having been part of the bureau before, Kisha’s dream of joining the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit had come true. Shortly after her start at the LAPD, it became clear that Kisha had the keen instincts and innate abilities needed to get into the minds of murderers. These qualities helped Kisha in her ascent higher and higher up the department’s ladder. But just when she thought she ...

Kerry Daynes has worked with some of the most complex and challenging criminals in prisons and secure hospitals as well as the victims of crime. A large part of her day job is spent delving into the psyche of convicted men and women to try to understand what lies behind their actions and how to set them on the path to becoming law-abiding citizens. Welcome to the life of a forensic psychologist. No two days are the same. The people you work with are wildly unpredictable, sometimes frightening and often deeply frustrating.

HIDDEN TREACHERY presents two riveting mysteries where nothing is as it seems and deadly secrets lurk beneath carefully crafted facades. In FINAL PERFORMANCE, retired detective James Woodward confronts the case that ended his career when a young actress is murdered at Seattle's historic Orpheum Theatre—posed identically to a fifteen-year-old cold case. As Woodward and his team unravel decades of secrets hidden within the theater's walls, they discover a sinister network of illegal adoptions and separated twins. With the Hunter's Moon rising again, Woodward races to unmask the killer ...

Diving deep into the unseen and unheard, Neely uses personal interviews, court records, media reports, and analytical data to understand how and why Black women are disproportionately more likely to die from homicide in comparison to their white counterpoints. Sounding an urgent alarm, No Human Involved contends that it is time for Black women’s lives to matter not only to their families and communities, but especially to those commissioned to protect them.

The impossible has happened. Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. For all the benefits of a more relaxed way of life, Wexford misses being the law. But a chance meeting in a London street, with someone he had known briefly as a very young police constable, changes everything. Tom Ede is now a detective superintendent, and is very keen to recruit Wexford as an adviser on a difficult case.

Taking listeners on a journey into the dark side of humanity, Emma Kenny explores the ingredient list of experiences that turns regular people into murderous monsters, looking at crimes that shook the world. From Ted Bundy to Joanna Dennehy, Richard Trenton Chase to Aileen Wuornos and many more besides, Emma explores the crime scenes and criminal minds of some of the most notorious serial killers of our time. She also unveils shocking stories of lesser-known killers that even the most dedicated true crime fan will be surprised by.

Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong, as one judge described her, as "a coldly calculated criminal recidivist and serial killer." She had experienced a lifetime of murder, mayhem, and mental illness. She killed two boyfriends, including one whose body was stuffed in a freezer. And she was convicted in one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's strangest cases: the Pizza Bomber case, in which a pizza deliveryman died when a bomb locked to his neck exploded after he robbed a bank in 2003 near Erie, Pennsylvania, Diehl-Armstrong's hometown.

The city of Queensport belongs to Hypnotica. Using her powers of hypnosis, she vanquishes millionaires and steals their things...while having some fun with their guards, of course. Even the city's hypno-defender, Mesmera, is unable to stand against Hypnotica for long - partially because she's so eager to submit to the pleasure of her company! All's well until something unexpected happens to the city. Now Hypnotica's going to have to deal with a new kind of problem: too much success!

Lamin Michaels learned at his mother's knee the importance of chasing paper, so it's no surprise he gets into the drug game when he's just a teenager. When he meets Zion, a product of the New York City foster care and prison systems, Lamin knows he's met the perfect partner in crime. Together they build a huge narcotics empire.

There's no spy like Nicole King. She infiltrates, she dominates, and she moves up the ladder toward the ultimate prize: the Spymistress. But with so many submissive, suggestible women just begging her to hypnotize them, will Nicole's libido distract her? And when she finally meets the Spymistress, will her own deep desire to surrender turn her into the ultimate double agent?

The past will always find you. A woman is found brutally murdered in a sordid Atlanta apartment. Her blood-soaked body bears a startling similarity to a woman found dead almost 40 years earlier. Soon Special Agent Will Trent finds himself returning to the home he grew up in - and a past that could hold the clue to the killings.…

Nicole King, hypno-spy and femme fatale, has fallen under the sensual power of the Spymistress. But Nicole's not like the other agents the Spymistress has seduced. She's smarter, stronger, more dominant...and she had Vera, the Air Force psychologist who recruited her into both her shadowy organization and into the life of a hypnotic submissive. Will Nicole's love, matched only by her mysterious guilt, save her from the Spymistress's clutches? Or will she succumb to pleasure and become the Spymistress's new toy?

Nicole has been captured by the sexiest, most entrancing spy she's ever met. Her hypnotic conditioning wiped from her mind, she is finally free to enjoy perfect obedience to a powerful Mistress...but how long can that last? When the tables turn and trouble catches up with them, Nicole's new Mistress will fall under the Spymistress's deadly hypnotic power herself. And unlike Nicole, she doesn't have any defenses...