Pat Brown and her husband, young parents in suburban Maryland, took in a boarder to help pay the bills so Pat could stay home with the children. When a murder occurred in their town-a young woman was strangled on a jogging path-Pat suspected their boarder, based on some observations about his behavior, even though he was the boyfriend of a close friend. She quickly uncovered strong evidence, but when she brought it to the police, they dismissed her as a "little housewife." But Pat was right (though it was another six years before the police even brought the suspect -- a serial killer -- in for questioning). Not only was Pat motivated to solve the crime out of fear for her family's safety but, it turns out, she had a gift for criminal profiling -- the combination of analyzing physical and behavioral evidence to come up with the most scientific determination about who committed a crime. She went on to get a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University, but the night she solved that murder for herself was the true beginning of her life's work.
Pat Brown is now one of the pre-eminent criminal profilers in the United States and one of very few women at the top of this field. THE PROFILER is the story of how Pat became a profiler, interwoven with the stories of irresistible criminal puzzles, all of which she solves.
