My Review (5 stars out of 5) This is the story of how FBI agent John Douglas helped set up the Behavioural Science unit, which also inspired the hit Netflix show of the same name. Spending time interviewing serial killers and teaching profiling skills to other agents and police officers, Douglas himself was the model…
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‘CIA Rogues and the Killing of the Kennedys’ by Patrick Nolan
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) Patrick Nolan’s highly researched book explores the CIA’s involvement in the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Detailing the lives and movements of both Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, the author targets the CIA’s Richard Helms and many…
‘The Shadow of Death’ by Philip E Ginsburg
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) During the 1980s, a killer stabbed six women in the Connecticut River Valley, between New Hampshire and Vermont. Despite rigorous investigations, the murderer has never been caught. Author Philip E. Ginsburg reveals the pioneering forensic methods police and FBI agents used to track the killer. The only…
‘Make Me’ by Lee Child
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Getting off a train at a remote station named Mother’s Rest, could be just another stop for Jack Reacher. But when he meets a woman who’s waiting for someone—someone who hasn’t turned up—it leads him into a mystery. The townspeople seem reluctant to let either Recher or the…
‘The Body Farm’ by Patricia Cornwell
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A research institute testing the decomposition of corpses comes in handy when Kay Scarpetta seeks help with a mysterious mark on the body of a dead girl. In Black Mountain, North Carolina, the doc is called in along with newly promoted Pete Marino and FBI buddy Benton Wesley…
‘Hannibal’ by Thomas Harris
My Review (5 stars out of 5) FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling finds her career hitting the skids after a drug bust goes badly wrong. While arch enemy Hannibal Lecter takes up a new post in Florence, Italy, former Lecter patient Mason Verger and Italian detective Rinaldo Pazzi are hot on his trail. But it’s…
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