Carol Anne Davis
| Carol Anne Davis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 Dundee, Scotland |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Education | University of Dundee |
| Alma mater | Edinburgh University |
| Genre | Crime |
| Notable works | Shrouded, Safe As Houses, Noise Abatement |
Carol Anne Davis (born 1961 in Dundee, Scotland), is a Scottish crime novelist and a writer on crime.
Davis left school at 15, but later graduated from the University of Dundee with an MA in criminology. As a postgraduate she received a diploma in adult and community education from Edinburgh University. In 1998, she left Scotland and moved to the south of England, where she lives today.
Her first three novels are set in the Marchmont district of Edinburgh, where she lived for many years.
Her début novel, Shrouded, has a trainee funeral director as protagonist. It charts his alcohol-fuelled descent into necrophilia and sexually motivated murder. It was followed by Safe As Houses, which explores the murders of a sadistic white-collar psychopath and his unsuspecting wife and child. Also set in Edinburgh, Noise Abatement is the most autobiographical of Davis's novels, in that she, like the protagonist, endured neighbours from hell when a band moved into the flat above her. She fantasized about killing them, but the hitherto law-abiding, but sleep-deprived man in the novel carries out this out. Davis set her fourth novel, Kiss It Away, in Salisbury, where she had moved. It is an unsettling exploration of male-on-male rape and of how society ignores or makes light of this violent crime. The venue of her fifth novel, Sob Story, is her birthplace, Dundee. It charts the journey of an isolated university student and her pen-pal, a violent inmate of Maidstone Prison. It was followed by Extinction, which is set in the world of bereavement counselling and features a white collar psychopath. This, in turn, was followed by Near Death Experience, a novel which draws on the author's awareness of Munchausens-by-proxy and the havoc wreaked by nurses who are personality disordered.
Between novels, Carol Anne Davis has written several books on crime, each profiling a killer's childhood and formative experiences. For Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers, she interviewed the clergyman who heard Myra Hindley's confession, and arrived at what has been called a fair assessment of a complex case. She also contributed to the anthology, Masters of True Crime (Prometheus Books 2012).
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