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In the UK, two women are killed by their partners every week; in the US, there are three victims every day; and in Mexico, there are about five victims every day. In 2020, the UK's intimate partner homicide rate doubled after the coronavirus lockdown, with similar increases seen around the world. Women make up 82% of the victims of intimate partner homicides. For a woman, the danger is most likely to come from a man with whom she is or has had an intimate relationship. Killers do not suddenly spiral out of control, and domestic violence is central to understanding intimate partner homicide. Crime modeler Professor Jane Monkton-Smith studied more than 400 intimate partner homicides to construct portraits of murderers and their motivations for killing wives, partners and even children, and found that murderers often follow a pattern of emotional manipulation. However, emotional manipulation is often difficult to detect, convoluted, or deeply hidden. Emotional manipulation is now a criminal offense in the UK. Professor Smith's work seeks to find ways to help individuals, charities, police forces and the judiciary identify and identify patterns of emotional manipulation, tracking how risks to potential victims escalate over time. She breaks this escalating risk into eight stages, a "homicide timeline." "Fatal Lover" uses real cases collected during work to review the eight stages of the "homicide timeline" one by one, visually displaying the mental processes of the victim, perpetrator and murderer at each stage, and debunking the "myths" about emotional manipulation, domestic violence and passion killing.