Couples Who Kill: Profiles of Deviant Duos by
Carol Anne Davis
pbk out October 06
(Allison Busby)
at £7.99
Informative, compelling and deeply disturbing, the latest book from Carol Anne Davis,
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.
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 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.
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 her
psychological study series in superb – if blood-chilling – style.
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C. H
Chris High - Author Multi-media Promotion Service www.chrishigh.com)
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Couples Who Kill: Profiles of Deviant Duos by
Carol Anne Davis
