By C. E. Lawrence
In the streets of latest York urban, the Slasher chooses his sufferer - and makes his movement. As he wraps his arms round the girl's beautiful throat, his energy raises. As he carves into her epidermis, his phrases turn into flesh. As he arranges her dead physique in a loving tableau, his fantasies call for new, extra violent sacrifices...At first, NYPD detectives suspect a jealous boyfriend. yet legal profiler Lee Campbell senses whatever darker, even ritualistic, in regards to the homicide. extra chilling, he's confident he's witnessing the genesis of a full-blown serial killer. yet time is operating out. a brand new sufferer has been selected. Campbell needs to seek the main terrifying recesses of the human brain - and his personal previous - earlier than the screaming begins again...
"Pulse-racing, compelling, good. Lawrence understands the right way to construct and carry suspense with the simplest of them. when you get into this one, you can't get out. A wild trip down a dismal road."
--John Lutz, New York Times bestselling writer of Urge to Kill
"C. E. Lawrence has accomplished a unprecedented point of authenticity, not just in personality improvement but additionally within the lifelike use of behavioral technological know-how. which will learn a serial-killer mystery that's solidly in keeping with scary fact, this can be the one."--Louis B Schlesinger, Ph.D., professor of forensic psychology, John Jay university of felony Justice
"C. E. Lawrence promises finely honed suspense, with certain twists, and safely captures the good judgment and instinct of a profiler lower than pressure."--Katherine Ramsland, professor of forensic psychology, De revenues college, and writer of The Devil's Dozen
"Criminally compelling, Silent Screams by means of C.E. Lawrence nails you on your seat with a desirable NYPD profiler who's hurled into the case of his lifetime. From the Bronx to long island, Catholic church buildings to college study rooms, this trip into violence and the soul is unforgettable." --- Gayle Lynds, New York Times
bestselling writer of The ebook of Spies and The final Spymaster
"Silent Screams is a wickedly exceptional, rigorously wrought mystery the place the jobs of hunter and hunted are skillfully blurred. staff up with a virtuoso profiler and a street-wise Bronx detective as they're thrown into an escalating torrent of homicide that threatens to comb them away. It's journey that neither they, otherwise you, will quickly forget."--Gregg McCrary, writer of The Unknown Darkness: Profiling the Predators between Us
"By atmosphere the horror of fictional killings opposed to the historical past of Sep 11, C.E. Lawrence continually reminds the reader that lifestyles is infinitely stranger than something which the brain of guy may well invent. The deviant wrongdoer of grisly murders is defined as somebody who has a worldly wisdom of forensic investigations. an identical may be stated of the writer. Silent Screams beckons C.E. Lawrence to develop into a repeat criminal during this genre."--Marina Staji , Ph.D., President of yank Board of Forensic Toxicology
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There is little or no attempt to make sense out of the statistical findings by showing that they are consistent or inconsistent with a theoretical scheme. Professor Reckless has advocated the use of this method under the name "actuarial approach": The actuarial approach assumes that individuals have a greater or lesser liability to be caught and reported as violators [of the criminal law] by virtue of the position they occupy in society as determined by their age, sex, race, nativity, occupational level and type of residence.