The Criminal Mind: Gripping encounters with serial killers and true crime from Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist

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WHAT MAKES A MURDERER? Unraveling the Dark Psychology Behind Britain’s Most Notorious Killers From Forensic Psychiatrist, Dr Duncan Harding

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2025
A young girl burns down the family home
A man doesn’t remember killing his wife

A teenager’s visions and voices lead to murder

One question binds these and many others from the casebook of Britain’s leading forensic psychiatrist: Why? What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes?

Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers – to establish a defendant’s mental state and motivation: their fitness to stand trial.

It is a career that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of human compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past.

This then is a journey deep into the criminal mind . . .

' Grips you from the start like a bestselling novel then takes you on an extraordinary journey … Riveting ’ JOHN HUMPHRYS

' Incisive, informative and occasionally shocking, The Criminal Mind is an engrossing book ’ DR RICHARD SHEPHERD, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes

' A penetrating insight into the darkest corners of the human mind. The most moving, surprising and compelling book you’ll read this year ’ M.J. ARLIDGE, bestselling author of Eeny Meeny

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