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Christopher Berry-Dee
A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded
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A chilling study of the most cold-blooded, manipulative people on planet earth
Explore the minds of murderers whose pursuit of their victims is as thrilling as the kill. As law-enforcement authorities, including the FBI's elite Behavioral Science Unit, will confirm, the majority…
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'Terrifying - true crime at its best' - Daily Express Based on rare interviews and correspondence with convicted serial killers, some subsequently executed.
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First published: London: John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2017.
They never would have guessed that they lived with a killer. Bestselling true crime writer and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his attention to a new kind of victim: the wives…
First published: London: John Blake, 2009.
A deep dive into the minds of murderers John Wayne Gacy, Kenneth Bianchi, William Heirens, John Cannan, and Patricia Wright.
In Talking with Serial Killers: World's Most Evil, bestselling author…
A CHILLING EXPLORATION INTO THE PSYCHE OF REAL-LIFE KILLERS
For decades, renowned criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee has interviewed imprisoned, infamous serial killers and now he peels back the curtain, engaging with…
Shaun Attwood
Conversations with ten of the world's most dangerous gangsters, including Shane Taylor, John Lawson and Ian 'Blink' MacDonald.
It is an extraordinary but well-documented phenomeon: two people, who seem relatively harmless alone, team up … and the results are terrifyingly explosive.
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The Man Who Talks to Serial Killers World-renowned investigative criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee has gained the trust of infamous serial killers throughout the world, entering their prison cells to discuss their…
Beyond the headlines, once the drama of the courtroom has subsided and the prison gates have been locked behind them for good, Dead Men Talking allows you to get close…
Provides interviews of some of the worst criminals in the world. Here, they speak of their violence and shocking deeds in their own words, from within some of the hardest…
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Emissaries of Satan is a gripping and chilling forensic examination of three truly evil men - two American, one British - who between them brutally murdered 29 innocent young women…
What is it like to write letters to a serial killer? What tactics does an investigator use to get an interview with a monster? What do these killers, locked behind…
First published in 2018 in the UK as Talking with female killers by John Blake Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Publishing.
Bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee returns with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the evil world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes. In Talking with Psychopaths: Beyond Evil, criminologist…
Joanne Dennehy is unique, for she now ranks alongside Myra Hindley and Rosemary West as one of the most heinous female serial killers in British criminal history. This book, by…
Leading crime expert Christopher Berry-Dee gained the trust of some of the most infamous convicted killers, having corresponded with them and even entered their prison lairs to discuss their horrific…
The leading writer and criminologist directs his uncompromising gaze on a growing phenomenon - so-called ‘rampage killers’, whose random multiple killings invariably leave entire communities in shock and mourning.
First published as Talking with psychopaths and savages in the UK in 2017 by John Black Publishing Limited –Title page verso.
Inside the minds of the world’s most depraved serial killers
Do you ever have that feeling you’re being watched? Perhaps you are…Leading criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his unflinching gaze on maybe the most sinister and disturbing of all killers -…
A rare and valuable opportunity to understand the psyches of serial killers through their revealing correspondence with the noted criminologist and true-crime author
Bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is back with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the savage world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes.
Look around you, because the person sitting next to you could be a cold, heartless murderer…a chilling look deep inside the minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous…
Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee seeks to understand the motivation, the amoral urges and the merciless horror behind Dahmer’s inhuman behaviour
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Christopher Berry-Dee, criminologist and bestselling author of books about the serial killers Aileen Wuornos and Joanne Dennehy, turns his uncompromising gaze upon women who not only kill, but kill repeatedly.
A chilling study of the world’s most evil people.
Christopher Berry-Dee is back. In Talking With Serial Killers: World’s Most Evil, the bestselling author delves deeper still into the gloomy underworld of killers and their crimes.
The UK’s number one true-crime author examines a different kind of murder victim: the unwitting romantic partners of monstrous killers.
A unique study of the criminal mind based on the author's extensive correspondence with convicted serial murderers
Christopher Berry-Dee,Robin Odell
Before being sentenced to three life terms for the murder of Bristol newly-wed Shirley Banks in April 1989, John Cannan boasted of over a hundred one-night stands. Drawing on the…
Christopher Berry-Dee,Tony Brown
True stories of the most evil men and women on death row.
Christopher Berry-Dee,Steve Morris
It’s an age-old question: is it nature or nurture? Can there really be a ‘demon seed’ that causes serial killers to act the way they do? Or is it an…
Aileen Wuornos,Christopher Berry-Dee
Aileen Wuornos was executed at the age of 46. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood, straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs. Her metamorphosis from victim…
From the cells of Death Row come the chilling, true-life accounts of the most heinous, cruel and depraved killers of modern times. This book presents the stories of the fiends…
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