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Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk or give any kind of explanation turns a domestic tragedy into...
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2009
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"The crimes of Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Dennis Rader, and other high-profile killers are so breathtakingly awful that most people would not hesitate to label them "evil." In this book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone uses this common emotional reaction to horrifying acts as his starting point to explore the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits...
5) 88 minutes
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[2008]
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English
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Dr. Jack Gramm is a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live. Now he has to put together the clues and try and solve the biggest crime of his career. He narrows down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, all before his time runs out.
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2015.
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"Presents the findings of a neuroscientist who has spent time imaging, mapping, testing, and dissecting the brains of psychopaths-people who lack a conscience of empathy-and discusses what motivates them and makes them act as they do." -- Publisher's description.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 33
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"Even with all his years of experience, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That's when he calls on brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware to read between the lines, where the darkest motives lurk. And if ever the good doctor's insight is needed, it's at the scene of a murder as baffling as it is brutal. There's no spilled blood, no evidence of a struggle, and, thanks to the victim's missing...
8) Breach
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2007.
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Eric O'Neill is promoted from a low-level surveillance job into the headquarters of the FBI to work for the renowned operative Robert Hanssen. He quickly discovers the true reason for his hire: Hanssen is the subject of a top-secret investigation, suspected of being a mole. Eric is to draw the traitor out of deep cover.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 38
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"The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thriller of art and brutality from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling...
10) Hot fuzz
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[2007]
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English
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Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer--but he's making the other cops on the force look bad. So he is sent to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford, where his partner is the well-meaning but overeager officer Danny Butterman, son of the police chief.
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[2007]
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Follow Steve McGarrett, Danno, and the rest of the Five-O squard. McGarrett heads an elite state police unit investigating organized crime, murder, assassination attempts, foreign agents, and felonies of every type. Saboteurs, revolutionaries, vigilantees, and the diabolical villain Wo Fat are just a few of the dangers McGarrett and his team must face.
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[2022]
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"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"--
13) Voice of fear
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A killer is looking to silence them, once and for all.
FBI agent Jordan Wallace is close to cracking the human trafficking case she's been working, when she does the one thing she should never do: let her guard down. The botched undercover mission is semisalvaged by the last-minute appearance of criminal psychologist Patrick Law, but Jordan can't imagine making a worse first impression. Especially when she's partnered with Patrick moving forward.
Patrick's...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 34
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"LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a fine homicide detective, but when he needs to get into the mind of a killer, he leans on the expertise of his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. While Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime, Delaware can decipher the darkest intents driving the most vicious of perpetrators. And there's no better place for the doctor's analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full...
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[2019]
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"What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is largely subjective. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat, or working on Wall Street, others find abhorrent. And if evil is only in the eye of the beholder, can it be...
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[2021]
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Español
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"El legendario exagente del FBI especializado en el aǹlisis de la conducta criminal, que como escritor ha alcanzado el primer puesto en la lista de superventas del The New York Times y en cuya figura se inspira Mindhunter, la serie de Netflix, ahonda en la vida y los c̕rmenes de cuatro de los asesinos en serie ̀ms perturbadores y complejos. Aq̕u revela detalles iňditos sobre su proceso de elaborac̤in de perfiles crimino̤lgicos, y divulga las...
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