Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

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Elizabeth Kandel Englander

"In this book, Elizabeth Kandel Englander sorts, structures, and evaluates violence hypotheses. She draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields - clinical and social psychology, sociology, criminology, psychiatry, social work, neuropsychology, behavioral genetics, and education - to present a uniquely balanced, integrated, and readable summary of what we currently know about the causes and effects of violence. Throughout, she emphasizes the necessity of distinguishing among different types of violent behavior and of realizing that nature and nurture interact in human development. There are no simple answers, and many well-accepted "facts" must be challenged." "This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition of Understanding Violence will be welcomed by all those concerned with violent offenders and their victims, and by their students and trainees."--BOOK JACKET.

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Patrick Radden Keefe

The Sackler name adorned the walls of the world's most storied institutions: Harvard, the Met, the Louvre. But their immense fortune was made by Valium and later OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that catalyzed the American opioid epidemic. Patrick Radden Keefe chronicles the private history of three generations.

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Michelle McNamara

A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case and whose obsessive work helped lead to the killer's capture.

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Ann Rule

Utterly unique in true crime literature, Ann Rule was working the night shift alongside Ted Bundy at a Seattle crisis clinic when he began his horrific serial murder spree. Rule chronicled Bundy's crimes as a crime reporter, unaware that the handsome coworker sitting beside her was the predator the police were hunting.