Shadowman

Book cover of Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling

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"Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare." (Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling)

The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit created a psychological profile…

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1 author picked Shadowman as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Katherine Ramsland

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Most people don’t know the surprising story of the first FBI profile, but I think it’s one of the best examples of how the method works.

I love that the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit’s founders, Howard Teten and Patrick Mullaney, get their due since they’ve been eclipsed by other profilers’ books.

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