Behavioral Unit

For fans of Mindhunter and Criminal Minds, a chilling account of a woman facing down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs’s Clarice Starling.

Profiler Roy Hazelwood is one of the world's leading experts on the strangest and most dangerous of all aberrant offenders - the sexual criminal. In Dark Dreams he reveals the twisted motive and thinking that go into the most reprehensible crimes. He also catalogs the innovative and remarkably effective techniques that allow law enforcement agents to construct psychological profiles of the offenders who commit these crimes.

AN ADDRESS TO DIE FOR… There’s a killer on the loose. And he’s targeting one specific address—138 Main Street. The problem? There are over 7,000 Main Streets in the USA. And the police and FBI have no clue which one will be next. For FBI Special Agent Ben Walker and his rookie colleague...

The execution was supposed to be the end. It was only the beginning. A new killer. The same signature. And a suspect no one would ever suspect. *The Beast Within Us* — Second Edition. Now available on Amazon. Charlie Ledbetter is dead. Executed by the State of Nevada for a string of Las Vegas murders — brought to justice by SAC David Stilley and the BAU. But the bodies are back. Same dismemberment. Same missing heads. SaBaldaccie saw. And now — taunting notes left for the FBI. Stilley's team follows a web of airline flights across seven cities and arrives at a conclusion that stops ...

Six bodies. One survivor. And the killer's final words that will haunt him forever. FBI profiler Reid Harper has spent sixteen years hunting monsters—trying to balance an impossible equation. Thirty-seven victims saved. One daughter lost. The math never works. When six American women are found drowned in Amsterdam's canals, staged with religious symbols and positioned like prayers, Dutch police request his expertise. The pattern is clear. The killer is organized, intelligent, and escalating. Reid identifies Willem de Vries within days: a canal tour operator with a dead mother, a strict ...

A profiler. A physical therapist. A killer who leaves little trace. When FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit Coordinator John Martin is assigned to a string of brutal murders in San Francisco, he expects resistance from local law enforcement—not from a civilian witness. But Katelyn Harris isn’t just any witness. She’s a physical therapist with an expert understanding of human movement—first brought into the case as an expert witness, she soon becomes a target of an attack by the very killer John is hunting, barely escaping. Katelyn insists she can identify her attacker by his gait—the ...

Jana Monroe was no ordinary cop: a cofounder of - and, at the time, the only female agent in - the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit at Quantico, over the course of her career she consulted on more than 850 homicide cases. But to the people who know her best, Monroe is the BSU analyst upon whom the film character of Clarice (Jodie Foster) in The Silence of the Lambs was modeled. Hearts of Darkness is Monroe's story and will have Monroe finally stepping out from the shadows to tell the range of remarkable tales from the top moments of a life chasing the monsters among us.

The dog was standing by the tree, four paws firmly planted, his hackles up. His owner, who had run after him through the woods, stopped and gasped aloud in shock. In front of them, hanging from the ancient yew tree, was a body. Blood dripped down the victim’s pale skin, where strange symbols had been crudely carved. The eyes stared straight ahead. Empty. Unseeing.

By an expert with over twenty-five years' experience interviewing more than thirty of the most dangerous male and female serial killers of contemporary times, this latest audiobook from the bestselling author explores the darkest corners of these thrill-killers' minds. As all law-enforcement...