An Interesting book on my shelf

I was looking through my family bookshelf on this typical Thursday afternoon and one book caught my attention in particular. With such an unique topic, I do not know why I did not locate this book earlier. While most people might find this topic disturbing and grotesque, I find it very interesting. The book is Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives by Robert K. Ressler, a former FBI agent.

Some of you might be wondering why such a grotesque topic interests me greatly. I was always interested in mystery novels as a child, challenging myself to try to figure out why the criminal did what he did. As I grew older, these mystery novels was replaced with more realistic murder novels. These novels challenged me even harder than the mystery novels, and I gained great pleasure from them trying to figure ow the murderer committed his crime and why he did it. I even thought about becoming a detective in the future, that is how much this topic interested me.

The book is a report of a study conducted by the FBI to further enhance the understanding of sexual homicides and the reasons for their actions. 36 psychopaths were studied by thoroughly investigating their history along with having personal talks with them in an attempt to understand their personality. This realistic investigation of sexual homicides and the insane murderers will allow me to deeper understand criminal profiling and psychology of psychopaths.

I can not wait to read this book and learn in great detail the patterns and the motives of sexual homicides and psychopaths. I want to take criminal psychology classes at college, and I hope this book will provide me with the basic information that I need for it.