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The Shadow of Death is the unforgettable true story of the search for the man who, since 1984, has killed at least six women and young girls in the Connecticut River Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont. It is the definitive account of how police and forensic psychologists work to track a killer, and it is the harrowing story of bucolic innocence lost when murder becomes a fact of small-town life.
In this brilliant work of true-crime reportage, Philip E. Ginsburg, acclaimed author of the bestselling Poisoned Blood, re-creates for us the terror of the small communities unnerved by inexplicable murders that begin to occur with horrifying regularity. Ginsburg takes us deep into the lives of the women who died, so that we share the pain of their families and friends as the connections among the several deaths become chillingly clear. He introduces us to the most up-to-date methods today's police use to bring a serial killer to justice, making real the close-knit world of the small-town policemen for whom there is no distinction between the personal and professional when their own families are in danger. And, most harrowing of all, Ginsburg paints an indelible portrait of the psychologist who must burrow inside the mind of the unknown serial killer, and who must identify with the murderer even as he works with the police to capture him.
Philip E. Ginsburg's new book is imbued with the same unerring sense of dramatic pacing and "bang-up investigative reporting" that made Poisoned Blood "one of the most riveting true-crime stories in memory," according to Publisher's Weekly. The Shadow of Death is superb and mesmerizing true-crime writing.
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Shadow of Death: The Hunt for the Connecticut River Valley Killer
2018, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
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1504053052 9781504053051
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The shadow of death: the hunt for a serial killer
1995, Jove Books
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0515115479 9780515115475
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The shadow of death: the hunt for a serial killer.
1994, Michael O'Mara Bks.
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1854799711 9781854799715
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The shadow of death: the hunt for a serial killer
1993, Charles Scribner's Sons, Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International
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0684194058 9780684194059
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The shadow of death: the hunt for a serial killer
1993, Michael O'Mara Books
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This is a true crime book about an area in Connecticut River valley of Vermont/New Hampshire that experiences three serial killers in the 1980s and 1990s. Ginsburg was a good writer who didn't sensationalize the storeis, letting the events speak for themselves as they played out.
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