COUPLES WHO KILL
Carol
Anne Davis
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 0749081759
Paperback
October 16th, 2006
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COUPLES WHO KILL
Written by
CAROL
ANNE DAVIS
As macabre as this is, the fascination of crime lies in the depravity
of the human mind. Carol Anne Davis, author of Women
Who Kill and Children Who Kill, has continued the series
in superb – if blood-chilling – style with her latest foray
into the True Crime field, Couples Who Kill, to further enforce
this point as she takes the reader into the darkest recesses of the psyche.
Couples who kill comprise only twenty per cent of killers,
but they often murder serially and are responsible for particularly
inhumane deaths. Sadistic friends, psychotic sisters and an increasingly
pathological mother-son team are amongst those profiled in this exploration
of the world's most deviant duos. There are infamous British cases,
such as the Moors Murderers and the Wests, as well as many equally disturbing
but less well-known ones. In the third of this series, which focuses
on the psychology of murderers, Couples Who Kill
explores the formative influences of these killers and their deadly
dynamics.
Comprising of thirteen in-depth case studies and exclusive interviews with experts and one of the Wests’ surviving victims, Couples Who Kill provides an unequalled study of this phenomenon without ever being self-indulgent, as the facts are laid down without bluster. In fact, the thing that is most striking is the “normality” of many of the subjects to the outside world, as shown with the statistic that one child per week dies in Britain at the hands of a parent being relegated to sub-headings in local papers.
Informative, compelling and deeply disturbing,
Couples Who Kill is a must for all readers
of True Crime and offers insights to the worlds of
murderers that can rank alongside anything available on the market today.
8/10
“Hi Chris.
I'm delighted that you enjoyed my true crime book Couples Who Kill.
Your site is a brilliant resource for readers and writers alike!”
Carol
Anne Davis - April 2007
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