Couples Who Kill: Profiles of Deviant Duos by
Carol Anne Davis
pbk out October 06
(Allison Busby)
at £7.99
Having investigated women who kill and children who kill, Carol Anne Davis has
now turned her attention to homicidal duos. As she points out in a foreword, her focus
is by no means confined to heterosexual pairings such as Brady/Hindley and Fred and
Rose West: 'herein you'll find serial torture-killer cousins, an increasingly unbalanced
mother-son duo, psychotic sisters and a cult-based brother and sister team.' The
material is inevitably lurid, but Davis is a serious rather than excessively sensational
true crime writer (as well as being the author of several dark and disturbing novels)
and she offers much that is of interest. She is in little doubt that Rose West was justly
convicted (unlike those who believe she was in effect a victim of guilt by association)
and her arguments are convincing. The other cases covered included the strange case
of Charlotte and Lea Papin and the extraordinary criminal careers of sometime butler
Archibald Hall and his colleague Michael Kitto. All in all, this is probably Davis's
most intriguing non-fiction book to date.
(
Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries)
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Couples Who Kill: Profiles of Deviant Duos by
Carol Anne Davis
