Killer Stories - Conversations With South African Serial Murderers (Paperback)

‘If you made me angry, to me, for that anger to go away I have to get hold of you . . . For that anger to go away, I have to do something to you.’

These are the words of one of South Africa’s most terrifying serial killers as told to Brin Hodgskiss in the bowels of one of our most secure prisons.

Hodgskiss got his doctorate in psychology for a study based on interviews with thirteen serial killers. The recordings sat gathering dust until recently, when top true-crime podcaster Nicole Engelbrecht found his paper online. The two connected and the concept for this book was born.

In Killer Stories, Hodgskiss uses each of the interviews, combined with the tenets of narrative psychology, to take the reader into the minds of the killers. He lays out how the stories these men told themselves about their lives contributed to where they ended up –
and how they aren’t that different from the stories we all tell ourselves.

The book intertwines the killers’ versions of the truth and the truecrime stories behind them, an interpretation of the tales using narrative psychology, and how Hodgskiss’s own journey as a psychologist and human being contributed to his deeper understanding of the minds of these killers.

General

Imprint:	Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release date:	July 2024
Authors:	Brin Hodgskiss • Nicole Engelbrecht
Dimensions:	233 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-77619-332-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Promotion > New Reads > Social & Politics
LSN:	1-77619-332-6
Barcode:	9781776193325

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!