Psychologist Anna Salter has been studying sexual offenders and their victims for more than twenty years. What she has learned in countless hours of interviews with sexual predators-from respected community leaders to clergymen and trusted family friends-will shock and outrage readers.What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, told in their own words, Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and deliberately rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. A man who raped more than ninety people tells how he fooled authorities by inserting elements of truth into his story. As recent reports of abuse by priests have shown, abusers often lead double lives in their communities. Two girls repeatedly raped in front of each other told Salter that their assaulter was "still moderator of the town meetings." Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled, Salter dispels the myths surrounding sexual predators and gives us the tools to protect our families and ourselves.

Predators

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Salter, Anna

Psychology & Counseling

Basic Books

What motivates sexual abusers? Why are so few caught? Drawing on the stories of abusers, Anna C. Salter shows that sexual predators use sophisticated deception techniques and rely on misconceptions surrounding them to evade discovery. Arguing that even the most knowledgeable among us can be fooled, Salter dispels the myths about sexual predators and gives us the tools to protect our families and ourselves.

Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders

Mental Health

Shiny Water

Working on a difficult child custody case in which a father is suspected of molesting his two small children, a forensic psychologist doubts her instincts when the children are murdered in their mother's house after the father is awarded custody. A first novel.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Atria

Involved in a custody case in which the father is suspected of molesting his two small children but has been granted custody anyway, forensic psychologist Michael Stone is drawn irrevocably into the case when the two children are murdered. Reprint.

Genre Fiction

Pocket Star

When a sadistic child molester is unexpectedly released from jail, only Dr. Michael Stone's recorded interviews with him now stand between his freedom and a lifetime in prison, and she decides to hunt the villain down before he finds her. 30,000 first printing.

Fault Lines

When a sadistic child molester is unexpectedly released from jail, only Dr. Michael Stone's recorded interviews with him now stand between his freedom and a lifetime in prison, and she decides to hunt the villain down before he finds her. Reprint.

White Lies

After being suspended from the hospital for sexual impropriety, Reginald Larsen ends up in Dr. Michael Stone's therapist's office, where Stone begins to unravel the truth about this amiable but dangerous man. Original.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Pocket

Eight months pregnant: a time when most women would want to stay off their feet. But forensic psychologist Michael Stone is no ordinary woman. When her old friend, the warden at Nelson's Point Correctional Facility, asks her to replace a psychologist who was leading the sex offender therapy group, Michael can't say no. As she soon discovers, her predecessor was dismissed for having sexual relations with an inmate -- and had befriended a smooth-talking prisoner in her group...a prisoner who now has his eyes on Michael. When violence erupts, leaving one inmate dead and one official in a coma, all eyes are trained on Michael's group. With no witnesses or weapons to be found, Michael races against the clock -- armed only with her knowledge of the psychopathic mind -- to uncover a vicious criminal network that might extend far beyond the prison walls....

Prison Blues

Contemporary

Drawing on her real-life expertise as a forensic psycholigist to create "a jolting debut" (The New York Times Book Review) Anna Sulter introduced an unforgettable heroine, Dr. Michael Stone, in Shiny Water. Now, Michael Stone Crosses into deadly territory to decipher the twisted logic of a sexual predator.

"Fascinating. . . . Handles this touchy material with integrity, tugging on our hearts even as she ties our nerves in knots. Salter writes with chilling authority."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Salter has graced her protagonist with a compelling and likeable voice in the tradition of Patricia Cornwell."-Library Journal "An impressive achievement."-Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune Forensic psychologist Breeze Copens has a gift. She not only hears the truth, she also sees it. So she knows when Daryl Collins-a born-again but remorseless con jailed in Seattle for armed robbery-is lying. What she doesn't know is the identity of the -little girl in a blue dress with yellow daisies who appears suddenly in her line of -vision during her interview with Daryl. And Daryl isn't telling. A heart-stopping thriller, its twists unexpected, its suspense mounting as the steely Breeze attempts to make hard evidence of her intuition, Truth Catcher sets the leggy, red-haired forensic expert on an increasingly treacherous course. It takes her eventually to Dallas, where she falls headfirst into the investigation of an unsolved murder of a four-year-old girl (in a blue dress with yellow daisies) a decade earlier. More dangerously, it puts her in the path of Daryl's half-brother, a creepy drug lord who goes by the name of Trash.

Truth Catcher: A Novel of Suspense

Pegasus Books

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Books by Salter, Anna

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Predators

Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders

Shiny Water

Shiny Water

Fault Lines

Fault Lines

White Lies

Prison Blues

Fault Lines

Truth Catcher: A Novel of Suspense