In the Wake of Evil: A Profiler's Reports

Chief Inspector Axel Petermann served in the criminal police for 40 years and investigated over 1,000 cases involving deaths or injuries. He studied advanced FBI methods and successfully implemented profiling in Germany. Years later, Petermann interviewed the captured killers to better understand the nature of evil.

These are real stories that make your blood run cold and set the imagination racing. A cold-blooded serial killer; a mutilated woman’s body in a plastic bag; the deaths of intimate partners… In this book, Petermann describes his most complex investigations. Step by step, he reveals how profilers work and explains what traces at the crime scene say about the offender’s psyche.