annakanga's Profile

I'm a forensic psychologist (no, I'm not a profiler or a crime scene investigator :) ) I live in Virginia with my husband and our two cats.  I love to read fiction and memoirs. 

Based on the above information, I've gotten a couple of requests for book recommendations...so I thought I'd add them here in case anyone else is interested.  The following are written by academics - so they tend to get into the psychology behind murder.

1. Serial Murderers and Their Victims (Hickey)   2. The Murderer Next Door (Buss)   3. The Female Homicide Offender: Serial Murder and the Case of Eileen Wournos (Shipley & Arrigo)   4. The Killers Among Us (Egger).     If you are interested in just a basic true crime novel (written by a novelist, not an academic, so it's really just a retelling of the facts), one of my favorites is The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. It's an in depth look at Ted Bundy.