Great pragmatic reviews of familiar cases

I enjoyed this book immensely! I appreciate the genuine opinions of the narrators! Would listen to more

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Captivating Book

I loved this audiobook, start to finish. Great listen! I will listen again for sure.

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Overall not bad

I am a huge fan of true crime stories. This book was a great listen for the most part. I found some parts to be too dragged out, such as Jack the Ripper. I feel the points were covered repeatedly in all the stories. I found myself skipping some chapters as things were being talked about two or three times. I did enjoy exploring the facts of each case and hearing some different parts you may not hear in every other version.

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Excellent

I listen to a lot of crime, I write crime, and I'm very picky about voices because I work in radio. This absolutely checks all my boxes. Superior narration, excellent writing, and the research is of course second to none. I loved it. I was particularly intrigued by the Lizzie Borden story as I had never heard that much detail on the case before. And leading with Jack the Ripper was brilliant. It hooked me and didn't let go.

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interesting details

I really enjoyed the book, my only critique would be that I would have preferred the chapters labeled with which story it was telling. I went back to relisted to one story and I had to work hard to find it! great listen!

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I love this book

Yeah, sometimes reading this makes me feel dirty cause Douglas is an obvious self-promoter ultimately making money from tragedy, but at the same time it's just so interested.

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gold

John Douglas has figured out exactly what we want to know and how to deliver it. lots of facts are given but the book tells a story rather then just give facts. all his books are good. this might be the best one.

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Overall excellent

I thoroughly enjoyed the narration, the story and the insight. Well worth the time to listen. Gives you a new perspective on cases who thought you already knew everything about. Highly recommend.

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What a jem

I loved everything about this book, and found every bit of it interesting. I love how it uses very casual vocabulary and is written like a conversation between friends.
The author gives his opinion freely yet never condescendingly, which is rare for someone of his position and expertise. He is to behavior analysis what Freud was to psychological analysis, without the quarks.
Obviously I find the field fascinating, but was surprised at how well this was written. If this wasn’t included in the plus library I doubt I would have used a credit for it, yet I plan on using ones on everything from the authors. Narrator was great as well and fit the part perfectly. I was surprised he wasn’t the author actually.
I’m usually very critical of audiobooks I would say, but this may be the best one I’ve listened to ever. I only wish it was longer. It’s broken up in many chapters which makes navigating easy. It would have been helpful if the chapters had titles to some extent though.

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excellent analysis.

mr douglas's analysis of the cases is very thorough. he examines every possible scenarios and offers his most likely suspect. his investigation of jack the ripper and lizzie borden are thrilling.

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