A Girl's Guide to the Criminal Mind: The Survival Handbook

The USA has 76 percent of the world’s serial killers. During the 1980s, FBI special agents traveled around the country to conduct death row interviews with 198 of them. The FBI agents from Quantico gained valuable insights into a predator’s mindset. This information formed the basis of a new field of study called behavioral profiling. But the information about how predators plan their crimes remained largely inaccessible to those who needed it most: their targets. Women and girls.

Alison Summers, a freelance journalist and author, spent seven years collecting material from FBI behavioral profilers, and forensic psychologists and psychiatrists in order to condense it into this easy-to-read guide.

Detectives say predators rely heavily on surprise. Girl's Guide to the Criminal Mind is intended to take that advantage away. Drawing upon real-life cases, Summers analyzes the three crime scenes—the approach, the capture and the get-way—and details how women have escaped predators at each stage. The author also reveals the most popular ruses for predators to win a girl’s trust, so readers won't fall for them.

A Girl’s Guide to a Criminal Mind is an original and powerful survival guide for female readers who want to take back the night.