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by Carol Anne Davis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 260 pages
  • Publisher: Summersdale Publishers (12 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840245816
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840245813
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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"'Carol Anne Davis writes with dangerous authority about the deadly everyday. Her work is dark in ways that Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters can only dream of... You've got to read her' Ian Rankin."

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Gory Business!, 25 April 2007
By Mr. R. D. M. Kirby "Dick Kirby" (Suffolk, UK) - See all my reviews
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Can sadistic killers, through therapy and counselling be induced to confront their demons and improve their lot? Hard-bitten ex-cops might endeavour to scoff this theory into extinction, whereas Carol Anne Davis believes that this treatment might be productive; but whatever the case, in her latest and tremendously well documented and researched book, Ms. Davis delves into the gory world of sadistic killers, getting off to a cracking start with Neville Heath who murdered two women and where (although Ms. Davis does not allude to the fact) the second murder, due to a sketchy investigation, was entirely preventable.

Part two of the book is devoted to American sadists, of whom the most dreadful was probably Robert Rhoades, convicted of just one murder but with his sophisticated torture kit, suspected of fifty others. Back in England, William Beggs, a homosexual, perverted murderer, was surely the worst of a bad bunch; completely out of control, slashing gay men with a razor, he was convicted of murder but later released on a technicality. Going on to attempt a veneer of sophistication by studying for a PhD, he later murdered a second time. Now imprisoned, he does what many of his ilk do best; manipulating the system, demanding porn magazines and taking or threatening legal action.

In a less lethal vein, Ms. Davis mentions the celebrity sadomasochists, including the composer, Percy Grainger who, with his wife concocted a quasi-legal (and invalid) document in which each agreed to exonerate the other, should either expire through being persistantly whipped. Grainger died in 1961; it is not clear if his demise was caused through a heart attack, septicaemia or exhaustion.

This is a gripping book and with her superb style of writing, Carol Anne Davis has probed into corners that few of us would care to venture into; many of her tales end by mentioning that the perpetrators of these revolting crimes are still behind bars and are likely to remain so. Amen to that.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous True Crime, 8 May 2007
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Really well condensed, so you get lots of info in a short space, rather than reams of rubbish.
Split up well into categories, 'English', 'American' etc. etc.
Brilliant, unbelievable dark souls, worth a read.
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