It takes us on a tour of some very interesting places, but it is a tour led by a deeply flawed guide. His failure to do that makes me question the book and how true to life it really is, especially when, for example, he states that he believed that The West’s had eaten some of their victims due to marks on the bones, I have not been able to find anything else to substantiate this and even though I know that it would be impossible for it to be proven given the death of Fred West and the silence of Rose, it is something that I would expect to be discussed somewhere if there had been any evidence of that.

The James Bulger murder is an event that I remember well and I, like many, was horrified when we found out that he had been murdered by two young boys. When he is asked at what point a psychologist should be brought into a police investigation his reply is simply: "Before the crime. For all you aspiring forensic and criminal psychologists out there, if you’re looking for a bit of summer reading, I’d highly recommend The Jigsaw Man.We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present.

In contrast to the investigating officers, he considered the act in the house to be the key act and suspected that the perpetrator must have already become suspicious of the police with property crimes, since the intrusion into the strange apartment took place with a certain routine without any signs of insecurity. What would a forensic psychologist say about people who refuse to accept responsibility for their actions or that they might have been wrong? He spent a year as a police cadet, then took a series of jobs before studying psychology in his late 20s.

Giving us access to what the media, the police and the government wouldn't want you to know so easily. This is the man who was behind the "sting" to convict Colin Stagg of the Rachel Nickell murder, a murder which was in all probability committed by Robert Napper. Paul Britton was involved in numerous other high-profile investigations, including the James Bulger murder , the kidnapping of the infant Abbie Humphries, the conviction of the Scottish serial killer Robert Black , the conviction of the five-time serial killer Colin Ireland and the appeal hearing of the Bridgewater Four . Whether he was at fault or not I don’t really know, but the theme throughout the book is that Britton is fantastic at his job, loved by the police that he worked with and relied upon to solve numerous cases that he was instrumental in ensuring that the perpetrators were caught and convicted.

The period during which Britton was an active criminal psychologist covers a period of time I was old enough to be aware of many of the cases, which made the stories more interesting to me, as I was already familiar with the outcomes, as far as was reported in the news at the time and this provided an additional look inside a case from a perspective that few of us get to see. Paul Britton is pompous, egotistical, absolutely desperate to remind his readers how important and valuable his contributions were and how the police would never have solved anything without him.

While I was too young to really take any notice of it at the time it is one of those stories that has left a stain that will never go away. I can see why he didn't want to be in the public eye with the work he does, but he should hold his head up high in the knowledge that he's helped put these evil monsters of different degrees behind bars never to do the same again (we hope). Even after the body was found, further extortion letters followed, announcing future kidnappings and demanding money to avoid them.