The Profiler Brown, Pat Memoir
	On Sale Date:	5/18/10
	Print Run:	75,000
	Format:	Hardcover
		336 pgs.
	Price:	$24.99
	ISBN:	1401341268
	ISBN 13:	9781401341268

One of the nation’s few female criminal profilers takes readers behind the scenes as she solves serial murders and sexual homicides against women. This rare, down-to-earth accounting of how killers are caught and mysteries are solved pulls readers along on a gripping journey through trailer parks, urban back alleys, and pristine suburbs. Pat Brown and her husband, young parents in suburban Maryland, took in a boarder to help pay the bills so Pat could stay home with the children. When a murder occurred in their town—a young woman was strangled on a jogging path—Pat suspected their boarder, but when she took her suspicions to the police, they rejected her as a “silly housewife.” Many years later, the police finally caught up to what Pat had known immediately, and admitted that the boarder was a prime suspect in the case.

As it turns out, Pat had a gift for criminal profiling: the combination of analyzing physical and behavioral evidence to come up with the most scientific determination about who committed a crime. She went on to get a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University, but the night she solved that murder for herself was the true beginning of her life’s work.