52/6 #5 - The Jigsaw Man
28/7/07 - The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton
Paul Britton was a forensic psychologist before the term was invented. A police officer asked him once how he would go about creating a ‘profile’ to catch a killer, and in a flash this oop-north NHS doctor became single-handedly responsible for solving and catching some of Britain’s most lethal killers. Not only is this an amazing account of his work, it’s a brilliant insight into how psychological profiling works - not to mention all the way through, you’ll be thinking ‘Why hasn’t someone made *this* into a TV show yet?’. I might phone his agent and find out how much the rights are myself…
Either way, the scariest thing about this book is that it’s all true.
