Regardless of what you may see on ABC's Castle, it's not all hot coffee and stilettos.
Pat Brown doesn't spend days in the lab and then hunt down killers in her designer shoes. Instead, she takes you on a step-by-step process, giving a better understanding of deductive criminal profiling and how this scientific analysis can be one of the most beneficial tools available to law enforcement today.
It's fascinating stuff.
The book takes you through one homicide after another so you can see the process up close and personal. I wasn't familiar with any of the cases Brown uses in the book, but I've seen her appearances on the Today show and Nancy Grace, so I know her work.
Profiler is very thorough and well detailed (just what you'd expect from a criminal profiler) and I was hooked from page one until the last sentence. Brown and Andelman are great storytellers and the prose is punchy and difficult to put down. It's literary popcorn (and I mean this as a compliment) that's salty and habit-forming.
One of the top criminal profiler's in the nation, Brown has provided crime commentary, profiling and forensic analysis in over one thousand TV and radio appearances worldwide. She's a frequent guest on Nancy Grace and Jane Velez-Mitchell, where she offers her expertise on what makes creeps like Joran van der Sloot tick. If you want to crawl around inside the twisted brains of some serious psychopaths, you couldn't ask for a better guide than Pat Brown.
Author: Pat Brown
Publisher: Hyperion Voice
Penned: May 2010
Time Out: Brown uses her 304 pages to tell one riveting story after another. You'll race to the end of each chapter to see if you can figure out the culprit.
Beach Worthy: Hmmm....maybe...but I'm guessing you'll be channeling Clarice from Silence of the Lambs before you shake the sand out of your shoes.