Leyton, is probably the world's most widely consulted expert on serial killing and an expert on modern criminal psychology, reviews a decade's worth of real murders and analyses their common features and themes. Sometimes surprising, often shocking, the result is an important addition to the literature of murder. He examines real murders of the sort that police most often have to deal with: murders resulting from fights between husbands and wives, parents and their children, within extended families and among acquaintances. His vivid descriptions of typical crimes are scrupulously based on the transcripts of police interviews and court records.