In 1990, a young woman was strangled on a jogging path near the home of
Pat Brown and her family. Brown suspected the young man who was renting
a room in her house and quickly uncovered strong evidence that pointed
to him -- but the police dismissed her as merely a housewife with an
overactive imagination. It would be six years before her former boarder
would be brought in for questioning, but the night Brown took action to
solve the murder was the beginning of her life's work.
Pat Brown is now one of the nation's few female criminal profilers -- a
sleuth who assists police departments and victims' families by analyzing
both physical and behavioral evidence to make the most scientific
determination possible about who committed a crime. Brown has analyzed
many dozens of seemingly hopeless cases and brought new investigative
avenues to light.
In The Profiler, Brown opens her case files to take readers behind the
scenes of bizarre sex crimes, domestic murders, and mysterious deaths,
going face-to-face with killers, rapists, and brutalized victims. It's a
rare, up-close, first-person look at the real world of police and
profilers as they investigate crimes -- the good and bad, the cover-ups
and the successes.
