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Rating: 
Summary: great reading
Review: I READ PAT BROWN'S KILLING FOR SPORT AND LOVED IT. I WAS ALWAYS RELUCTANT TO READ BOOKS ON TRUE CRIME BUT WHEN I RELIZED PAT HAD WRITTEN ON I HAD TO HAVE IT AND SHE DID NOT DISAPOINT ME. THE BOOK WAS EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND AND I FOUND MYSELF NOT BEING ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN! THANKS PAT FOR WRITING IT. WRITE SOME MORE!! I MEAN IT.
LESLIE A. BRZOSTEK
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Most books by profilers and true crime writers exaggerate how profiling
solves homicide cases. I had seen Pat Brown on numerous news programs
and I liked her straightforward answers on criminal behavior and
homicide investigation. She clearly knows that cases are solved by
solid
police work and not by the mostly useless profiles constructed by
people
that never have to account for their content. This is not to say she
condemns all profiling but rather that profilers should stick to crime
scene analysis and not pull suspects characteristics out of a hat. By
the way, this is not a book per se about how to profile nor does it
spend a lot of time on specific cases. What this book does do extremely
well is attack serial homicide and serial killer mythology with logic
and casework experience. She knows what she is talking about and
detectives entering homicide investigation could avoid a lot of
mistakes
in analyzing suspects and their behaviors if they read her book. I have
been in law enforcement for fifteen years and I still learned something
from her take on the subject.
Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: Pat Brown clears up a lot of misconceptions about serial killers that many people get from reading true crime books. Any question you can think of about this topic is addressed in this book. I highly recommend the book to anyone seeking accurate information about serial killers and the homicides they commit.
Rating: 
Summary: Pat Brown has no clue or concept once again....
Review: Pat Brown might be the CEO of S.H.E but that does not mean that she knows anything. Watch any of her T.V appearances or read any of her books and you will see that she contradicts herself, she stumbles over herself, and she plain out-and-out is clueless in many of the areas of serial killing, homicide, profiling, et al. This book is no exception. Pat Brown has no schooling, education or degree in any of the areas that she "sells" in her "business". I have seen her give answers on I, Detective and get them wrong from what every single other law enforcement person has stated. This book contains mis-information, contradictions, and theory. Don't waste your time or your money, buy a book by someone who has the education and the knowledge to back up what they're saying. I have no idea why this book has so many "good" reviews. If I could have given it a Zero rating, I would have.
Rating: 
Summary: Personal experience
Review: This a mildly interesting look at the concept of serial killers,
but the author tells us up front that it is not any kind of scientific look at the subject, but it is based on her personal
experience.
She is certainly correct about that.
The author has some experience with a serial killer, and she relates she became interested in the subject because she suspected the police weren't giving that case the proper amount
of attention. So she has studied cases of serial killers to become more acquainted with them and their profiles, and she
does present the reader with many instances of such killers,
but her presentation is not categorized at all, nor is there any
order to them. So we are left with reading a series of individual cases, with little connection amount them.
She does assert that the "scientific" approach to profiling isn't nearly as good as the FBI expects us to believe, and she
presents material showing that there is more in the way of "common sense" details in their profiling, and that regular
citizens can do about as well in that regard.
Plus, her study of individual cases tells her there are more
such cases than we tend to believe.
This is a fairly interesting series of stories, but it is mainly
the author's personal experience and her personal approach to
such complex problems, and, as a result, the book tends to make interested readers pursue the subject in a more serious fashion.
You won't find many answers here, only questions readers will
have to research elsewhere.
Rating: 
Summary: tough talk about brutal crimes
Review: This is a streetwise no BS guide to the minds of serial criminals that shatters a lot of stereotypes. Though she finds common threads in the thinking of psychopathic minds, this is more of an anti-profiling book, as it points out some of the flaws in attempting to pigeonhole criminals into certain types.On the negative side, the book suffers from awkward and sloppy writing, flippant and jokey descriptions ("bop-and-drop", "Smoke a Cigarette"), and her tendency to let her emotions get the best of her (referring to serial killers as "cowardly" and "wimps".) The book also suffers from a lack of scientific documentation and/or real-life examples-- in fact, she uses her own fictional examples, which only come off as absurd caricatures of real life. Brown's main purpose, it appears, is to shock the reader out of his/her complacency, and this book is best read by women who are too cavalier or ignorant about their vulnerability to the sick and dangerous predators out there. Should be read by women everywhere, along with Gavin DeBecker's THE GIFT OF FEAR.
Rating:
Summary: tough talk about brutal crimes
Review: This is a streetwise no BS guide to the minds of serial criminals that shatters a lot of stereotypes. Though she finds common threads in the thinking of psychopathic minds, this is more of an anti-profiling book, as it points out some of the flaws in attempting to pigeonhole criminals into certain types. On the negative side, the book suffers from awkward and sloppy writing, flippant and jokey descriptions ("bop-and-drop", "Smoke a Cigarette"), and her tendency to let her emotions get the best of her (referring to serial killers as "cowardly" and "wimps".) The book also suffers from a lack of scientific documentation and/or real-life examples-- in fact, she uses her own fictional examples, which only come off as absurd caricatures of real life. Brown's main purpose, it appears, is to shock the reader out of his/her complacency, and this book is best read by women who are too cavalier or ignorant about their vulnerability to the sick and dangerous predators out there. Should be read by women everywhere, along with Gavin DeBecker's THE GIFT OF FEAR.
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