Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

9 reviews

taylorlanxon's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Rape, Murder, Pedophilia, Torture, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Stalking

rose_poirot's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

3.5

John Douglas get into the horrible horrible things humans have done to each other but I believe he focuses on the narrative of stranger danger rather than the realities of most people being killed by someone they are close to. 

He does give merit to the tormented childhoods of many of the criminals he discusses. John lands on incarceration and ultimately the death penalty being the ideal outcome and spends little time focusing on intervention and policy or funding to provide services before these people get to the point of assault and murder.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, Suicide, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Racism, Animal death, and Violence

dysgraceless's review against another edition

dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Rape, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Murder, Medical content, and Kidnapping

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.0

This was an interesting look into the work that's gone into linking the fields of criminal investigation and psychology/psychiatry. To have to pretend to empathize with murderers and violent criminals as a necessary part of one's job sounds incredibly draining. One of the hospitals mentioned in the section addressing the two killer nurses is familiar to me.  It was unsettling, though I guess my reaction points out the idea a lot of us live under, which is that violent crimes happen to other people in other place. It can't happen to us, or near where we feel safe.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Body horror, Car accident, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Torture, Child abuse, Child death, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical content, Pedophilia, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Rape, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Addiction and Alcohol

laineybarbour's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Stalking

courtney_reads_stories's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

3.0

This was my first dip into true crime, and it felt like I dove right into the deep end. John Douglas tells the tails around his interviewing of four killers. The stories were chilling and fascinating and overall well told, however I felt at times like he spent too much time on background and process information and not enough specifically on the killer at hand, in a few instances it almost felt braggadocios.

Will try more from him and in this genre in future though.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Stalking, Pedophilia, Murder, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Incest, Hate crime, Homophobia, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

thelovelylibrarylady's review against another edition

dark informative tense slow-paced

4.0

When I stumbled upon this book written by John E. Douglas, the FBI criminal profiler who served as an inspiration for Mindhunter (a Netflix series), I knew that I had to read it. Not only am I a huge fan of the show, but I also have an interest in true crime. Douglas has talked to some of the most infamous criminals - mostly murderers - in the United States and his recounts of these meetings are phenomenal. He takes time to explain why murders commit the heinous crimes they do while walking the reader through four key interrogations he has led. I want to add that there is some content in this title that is disturbing. Douglas does share some graphic descriptions of violence and readers should take note of that before diving in.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Physical abuse

emakay's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Kidnapping, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Violence