The Shadow of Death, Philip E. Ginsburg
The Shadow of Death, Philip E. Ginsburg
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The Shadow of Death
The Hunt for the Connecticut River Valley Killer

Author: Philip E. Ginsburg

Narrator: Stephen Bowlby

Unabridged: 15 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/29/2022

Synopsis

In the mid-1980s, someone stabbed six women to death in the Connecticut River Valley on the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. The murderer remains at large and the total number of his victims is unknown. In this brilliant work of true crime reportage, New York Times–bestselling author Philip E. Ginsburg provides fascinating insights into the groundbreaking forensic methods used to track the killer and paints indelible portraits of the lives he cut so tragically short.

The Shadow of Death recreates the fear that consumed the idyllic region when young women began to disappear with horrifying regularity. Friends and family of the victims were left to endure the bottomless pain of imagining their loved ones' terrifying last moments. Desperate to stop the slayings, local police and FBI investigators used exotic new techniques to try to unmask the murderer. Ginsburg documents the extraordinary efforts of psychologist John Philpin as he risks his own emotional stability to get inside the mind of a madman.

Law enforcement officials identified several suspects and came tantalizingly close to putting all the pieces of the puzzle together, but it was only after a pregnant woman survived a brutal attack that the killings appeared to stop. The question remains: Could they start again?

About Philip E. Ginsburg

Philip E. Ginsburg enjoyed several careers, sacrificing the advantages of continuity and seniority for the pleasures of new challenges and a variety of experience and learning. The common thread was writing, and each profession fed his curiosity about individual lives and how they fit together in a mosaic of politics and culture.

Ginsburg started writing before he was a teenager as a reporter for a short-lived summer camp newspaper. After college and a term in the Peace Corps, he worked as a newspaper reporter, a college professor teaching comparative and Chinese politics, and executive director of the New Hampshire Humanities Council. On a sabbatical from the Council, he turned what was intended to be a magazine article harking back to his journalism days into a book, Poisoned Blood, which became a New York Times bestseller. His subsequent career as a freelance writer produced histories, brochures and other materials-mostly for nonprofit organizations-and a second true crime work, The Shadow of Death. Since retiring as a writer, Ginsburg has worked as a volunteer advisor/mediator at the New Hampshire Consumer Protection Bureau and a court guardian for children in abuse and neglect cases. He also served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on January 04, 2019

True crime books are a mixed bag. The authors have to walk a fine line between sensationalizing the crimes and making clear the horror of what happened to the victims and their families. And that sort of thing can be even more difficult when the crimes in questions haven't been solved. Philip Ginsbu......more

Goodreads review by Christian on April 26, 2017

When I was a child I would make frequent trips with my family to Lachine Canada to visit my grandparents, and one of the pit-stops along the way up there was in White River Junction, Vermont to a Howard Johnson’s restaurant. On the lobby wall of that restaurant was a huge map with buttons on it, and......more

Goodreads review by ♥ Marlene♥ on June 27, 2020

This is a book that I have on my shelves for quite a long time.Mine is the hardback copy and I know I read it and liked it but could not recall a thing so decided to read the kindle version. What an interesting read. I was so enthralled with it, really invested. So curious who the serial killer would......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on September 25, 2021

This was a BookBub purchase. An insightful read. I found the work of John Philpin, a psychologist and Forensic psychologist really interesting. The way he would get into the mind of the killer, his process of letting his mind make associations to think like the killer. He described the killer like a......more

Goodreads review by Helen on November 27, 2018

I wanted to like this book but it didn't happen. I am a huge fan of true crime novels and I had never heard of this serial killer so I paid Amazon for the privilege of reading this book. However, if I had known how slow going it would be, I would have waited till it was free or foregone buying it. F......more

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