‘Serial killers experience the power over life and death as omnipotence … When I interrogate a serial killer, I dive into the abyss of his soul.’From 1994 to 2000, when South Africa was a young democracy, the country was stalked by a succession of brutal serial killers. Psychologist Micki Pistorius became the first profiler for the South African Police Service, playing a vital role in identifying and interrogating these killers, as well as training detectives natio...

In Fatal Females, investigative psychologist and former police profiler Micki Pistorius examines the minds and motives of women who kill. Throughout history the view seems to have prevailed that it is not in women's nature to commit violent crime, but Pistorius shows that this is not in fact the case. Women, givers of life, are indeed capable of ruthlessly taking life. She examines more than fifty documented cases of South African female killers, categorised according to the natur...

The first comprehensive study of serial homicide in South Africa is intended primarily for psychologists, students, educators and police officers who require background on the behavioural patterns, motives and other details about serial killers. It is a serious attempt to understand the mind of the serial killer so that he may be identified and apprehended as soon as possible. For, as the author points out, serial killers' prospects of rehabilitation are negative - and they need to be remo...

The science of profiling is relatively new, having first been tried in the United States in the 1940s. However, it took about another twenty years of development and refinement before it became recognised as an investigative tool in the apprehension of criminals. Profiling can be described as an 'educated attempt to provide investigative agencies with specific information about the type of individual who could have committed a particular crime'. Nowadays it is utilised with other sound inv...

« Pendant mes enquêtes, je suis vingt-quatre heures sur vingt-quatre dans la tête des serial-killers. Je n’ai jamais aimé le sang, mais, aujourd’hui, mes jours et mes nuits sont peuplés par des cauchemars et des corps en décomposition. » À trente-huit ans, Micki Pistorius est la première femme au monde à avoir exercé le métier de profiler et à traquer les serial-killers. En l’espace de six ans, elle a enquêté sur près de quarante cas de tueurs en série et les profils psychologiques qu’elle...

Reeksmoordenaars ervaar die mag oor lewe en dood as almagtig. Aangesien hulle min beheer het oor hulle eie lewens en gevoelens, raak hulle verslaaf aan die almagtigheid wat beheer oor iemand anders se lewe hulle bied. Daarom pleeg hulle herhaaldelik moord. Dit herstel hulle geestelike wanbalans wanneer hulle selfwaarde in twyfel getrek word. As ek ’n reeksmoordenaar moes ondervra, het ek op metafisiese vlak in die troebel waters van sy siel geduik. Sy emosies van leegheid, eensaamheid, dep...

Sorg is ’n historiese roman, geskryf in die genre van magiese realisme. Die verhaal begin by die Skepping, toe die Khoi en San die koddige volstruis uitlag. Die Khoi skets die mitiese Groot Volstruis teen die muur van ’n grot in die Swartberge en die Groot Volstruis sweer wraak teen die mensdom wat hom gespot het. Die Groot Volstruis blaas sy giftige asem oor die Oudtshoorn-distrik van die negentiende eeu en dit tref veral vir Hendrik van der Westhuizen, volstruisveerbaron op sy p...