Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer. A book by David Canter. Book Review

David Canter, professor of Psychology at Liverpool University, has written more that a dozen books on psychology, and his biography states he "....is the pioneer and leading expert in psychological profiling......" Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer (1994) is a factual book, based on his own experiences, on the evolution and development of profiling and is set out chronologically. He explains that he believes a criminal leaves behind a shadow of himself at …

…legal requirements. It is far more technical than the previous parts and I felt that rather than just being given information the writer was actually attempting to teach me something. I feel this book is quite dated, but would recommend it, if only for the final chapter, for anyone with an interest in either classical or modern psychology. This is not a book for hard core psychological thriller readers as there's just not enough action.