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Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett's specialty is the psychological autopsy - an investgation into a person's life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. She calls herself a deadshrinker instead of a headshrinker. The silence of her "patients" is a key part of the job's attraction. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person, one with a suspect memory who can't be trusted to participate in his...
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An ongoing string of high-profile and very public murder-suicides has San Francisco even more rattled than a string of recent earthquakes: A flamboyant fashion designer burns to death, clutching the body of his murdered lover. A superstar 49er jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge. And most shocking of all, a U.S. attorney launches her BMW off a highway overpass, killing herself and three others. Enter forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett, hired by the SFPD...
3) Kill again
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Dr. Claire Waters's patient Rosa Sanchez is finally getting her life together after being victimized for years. So it's a shock when Rosa is handcuffed and led away by a man Claire assumes is law enforcement. But Rosa has been abducted. Turning to her friend Nick Lawler, a homicide detective in the NYPD, they must track down a deranged criminal who reduces his victims to nothing but bones. A brilliant gamesman obsessed with order and perfection,...
4) 88 minutes
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Dr. Jack Gramm is a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live. Now he has to put together the clues and try to solve the biggest crime of his career. He narrows down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, all before his time runs out.
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"Working as a dedicated forensic psychiatrist for many years, Emma is not shocked so easily. Then she is assigned to work with Connie, a wife and mother accused of a despicable crime. Connie is suffering from dissociative amnesia--or at least seems to be. Now it is up to Emma to decide whether Connie can stand trial for her sins. But there is something about Connie that inexorably pulls Emma into her orbit. Perhaps it is the way she seems to see right...
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Is she missing...or a murderer? When Laura Chaucer, daughter of a U.S. senator, vanishes from her college campus, celebrated FBI profilers Special Agent Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy are called in. Thirteen years ago, Laura and her nanny disappeared from her family's Denver home. Laura was found alive, but her nanny wasn't so lucky... and the killer was never caught. Laura could identify him--if only she didn't have...
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It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psycho analyst - and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just developing and viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion. The world of 1900s Vienna is one where philosophy, science and art are at their most exciting and flourishing, with the coffee shops full of men and women debating the latest cultural and political theories. Liebermann's good friend...
9) Psychopath
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Enlisted by the FBI for his former successes, forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is assigned the case of the elusive Highway Killer, who is profiled as a brilliant psychiatrist and who engages in a confrontational letter campaign with Clevenger through a national newspaper.
10) Waking hours
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All towns have secrets. Some have demons. Welcome to East Salem... Forensic psychiatrist Dani Harris and security system business owner Tommy Gunderson investigate the death of a teenager, while lawyers and school administrators try to stop the investigation. At the same time, an old woman speaks in Latin about a supernatural connection to the murder.
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Autumn Reiniger expects something special for her twenty-first birthday. Daddy's already bought her the sports car, the apartment, and admission to the private college where she parties away her weekends. Now she wants excitement, and she's going to get it. Her father signs up Autumn and five friends for an "ultimate urban reality" game: a simulated drug deal, manhunt, and jailbreak. It's a high-priced version of cops and robbers, played with fake...
12) Compulsion
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Investigating a disturbing murder involving a billionaire's twin infant daughter, forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger suspects that the main suspect, the baby's adopted teen brother, is innocent, and that the other twin is being targeted by the same killer.
13) The only child
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"Forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Lily Dominick interviews a criminal suspect who claims that he is more than two hundred years old, personally inspired Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker's novels, and is Lily's father. To discover the truth Lily embarks on a journey that will threaten her career, her sanity, and ultimately her life"--
14) The confession
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Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in California hills, and a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he's also got a mistress. And when she's found strangled to death with his necktie, the police show up at his door.
15) Denial
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A series of grisly murders has forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger on the case of a lifetime and the fight of his life against a brutal killer with a horrific trademark and his own howling demons of sexual compulsion, self-destruction, and denial.
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""She doesn't have a name. She's got the clothes on her back, a coloring book, a necklace, and a stick of bubble gum. She's ex parte. She's not talking. That's why they want you." With these words, Dr. Sylvia Strange is drawn into the world of a ten-year-old child too scared to speak. In A Desperate Silence, Dr. Strange must uncover this little girl's secrets or else the knowledge she possesses just might die with her."--BOOK JACKET. "What has this...
17) The Architect
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West Crosse, an architect whose clients are America's wealthiest families, not only designs houses but also makes their lives more perfect by murdering an abusive spouse, a toxic lover, a predatory business partner, or an unwanted child. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frank Clevenger has been hired by the FBI to investigate Crosse, an assignment that leads to the ultimate cat-and-mouse game.
19) Murder Suicide
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When a millionaire inventor is killed the night before undergoing experimental surgery, forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger examines three key suspects, including the man's long-suffering wife, his estranged son, and a usurping business partner.