Jigsaw Man

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Forensic psychologist Paul Britton asks himself four questions when he is faced with a crime scene: what happened: who is the victim: how was it done & why? Only when he has the answers to these questions can he address the fifth: who is responsible? An intensely private & unassuming man Britton has an almost mythic status in the field of crime deduction because of his ability to 'walk through the minds' of those who stalk abduct torture rape & kill other human beings. What he searches for at the scene of a crime are not fingerprints fibres or blood stains
- he looks for the 'mind trace' left behind by those responsible; the psychological characteristics that can help police to identify & understand the nature of the perpetrator. Over the past dozen years he has been at the centre of more than 100 headline-making investigations from the murder of Jamie Bulger to the abduction of baby Abbie Humphries the slaying of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common the pursuit of the Green Chain rapist & the Heinz baby food extortionist the notorious Gloucester House of Horror & most recently the murder of Naomi Smith. Told with humanity & insight The Jigsaw Man is Paul Britton's absorbing first-hand account of those cases & of his groundbreaking analysis & treatment of the criminal mind. It combines the heart-stopping tension of the best detective thriller with his unique & profound understanding of the dark side of the human condition.