title: Madness. Sex. Serial Killer.: A Disturbing Collection of True Crime Cases by Two Masters of the Genre
author:  M. William Phelps 
description: SERIAL KILLER EXPERT, star of the Investigation Discovery series DARK MINDS and acclaimed investigative journalist M. William Phelps is the national bestselling, award-winning author of 21 nonfiction books. Winner of 2008 New England Book Festival Award for "I'll Be Watching You," Phelps has made over 100 television appearances, including CBS's "Early Show," "The Today Show," "The View," "Fox &amp; Friends," truTV, Discovery Channel, Fox News Channel, ABC's "Good Morning America," Learning Channel, Biography Channel, History Channel, Oxygen, OWN, and others. He's been on USA Radio Network, Catholic Radio, Mancow, Wall Street Journal Radio, Zac Daniel, Ava Maria Radio, ABC News Radio, and Radio America, who calls him "the nation's leading authority on the mind of the female murderer." GREGG OLSEN IS THE NEW YORK TIMES, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of twenty books, both true crime and fiction, including Abandoned Prayers, Closer than Blood, Bitch on Wheels, A Twisted Faith, Starvation Heights, and If Loving You Is Wrong. He appears frequently on television on such shows as Fatal Vows, Dateline NBC, NPR, Good Morning America, The Early Show, FOX News; CNN, Anderson Cooper, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Extra, Access Hollywood, Snapped, Deadly Women, and A&amp;E's Biography. His book, Envy, was the Washington State selection for the National Book Festival. He lives in a small town on Puget Sound, Washington.
zlib_text: HIGHEST PRAISE FOR M. WILLIAM PHELPS
  “M. William Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a
  killer.”
  —TV Rage
   
  THE KILLING KIND
   
  “In this true crime book, Phelps focuses on unrepentant killer Danny
  Hembree . . . [who] seizes the chance to take center stage with lurid
  confessions of a decades-long career of violent robbery, assault, rape, and
  murder.... Fans of the author’s Discovery TV series, Dark Minds, will be
  rewarded.”
  —Publishers Weekly
   
  OBSESSED
   
  “True-crime junkies will be sated by the latest thriller from Phelps, which
  focuses on a fatal love triangle that definitely proved to be stranger than
  fiction. The police work undertaken to solve the case is recounted with the
  right amount of detail, and readers will be rewarded with shocking
  television-worthy twists in a story with inherent drama.”
  —Publishers Weekly
   
  BAD GIRLS
   
  “Fascinating, gripping . . . Phelps’s sharp investigative skills and
  questioning mind resonate. Whether or not you agree with the a