The Mindhunter

A serial killer is on the loose in Northern England, arrogantly discarding his many victims like so much unwanted garbage in the countryside and meres of the beautiful, but wild and often lonely English Lake District. Detective Chief Inspector Kate Hoagan, feted national heroine and pride of the small, Cumbria police force, is charged with stopping the murders by bringing the killer to justice but the perpetrator is clever, very clever and despite her and her team's best endeavours, Hoagan finds herself confronting not only a ruthlessly cunning predator and slayer of young women, but also the sexist bigotry endemic to the era and the very active and omnipresent demons of her own, extremely violent, past.Set in 1993, against a backdrop of the Irish 'Troubles', Mindhunter takes the reader on a journey into the, American pioneered, early days of forensic psychological offender profiling and the dark and terrifying mind of a ruthless and highly intelligent multiple murderer.Not a novel for the faint-hearted. Born in Cheshire, England, Len studied at Stockport College and the Open university where he read for a degree in psychology and criminology. His work, as a risk assessment engineer, took him to many parts of the world and into many interesting places, including gas exploration platforms in the North Sea, nuclear submarines and many of Scotland's and Northern England's prisons. This mind-broadening lifestyle has given him a vast and comprehensive insight into the diverse and complicated world in which we live and whether writing for children, as R.M. McLeod, or an older readership, his travels and experiences have given him an ability to write with authority, humour and an understanding of both his characters and his craft that is very hard to match.Now retired from his 'usual day job', he lives 'quietly, apart from when the grandchildren (code-named the SAS) come round' with his wife and Pip the Border collie dog.Len writes children's books under the pseudonym R.M. McLeod. (Ross Michael McLeod@redpandapress1)