Carol Anne Davis

Sob Story by Carol Anne Davis was both a dark and disturbing thriller that I found quite riveting. Not a perfect read, there were some flaws, but over all I was quite impressed and would definitely read another book by this author.

Amy is a shy, socially inept young woman who is away from home attending university. As many of her problems stem from her being on the verge of anorexia, she avoids any social gathering where food is being served. Being lonely, she jumps at the chance to become show more pen-pals with a young man who is serving a prison term, she doesn’t even take the time to consider that a seven year prison term for a act of violence against a woman is quite serious and could have repercussions. Of course Jeff, the prisoner, is writing to Amy and telling her exactly what she wants to hear, all the while making plans to visit her upon his upcoming release.

The author imparts a fair amount of information about eating disorders and at times this abundant information causes the story to bog down, but it does help the reader to understand Amy and her motives. In the same way, we learn a great deal about the prison system and Jeff‘s background which also helps to explain his deviant behaviour. In the end this book was not the action packed read I thought is going to be but it was a convincingly creepy psychological thriller that I found quite gripping. show less

I'm 48% done with Parents Who Kill: A lot of cases and very interesting ones which I try to look up but also very hard to read about daddy wanting revenge on his ex and killing their kids, or mummy wanting to keep scummy boyfriend so allows him to abuse her kids. Have to take breaks reading this one. — Feb 16, 2015 04:10AM

Removing this from my currently reading books because I am not currently reading.
Will get back to it.

Update: Back to reading it. August 11 2015.

Finished one or 2 days show more later and what a read.



The book is divided in chapters like for instance: Men who kill their Pregnant Wives

Or In the Name of Honour ( also had to do with religion)
Then you have parents (dads mostly) that kill for money Money for Nothing

You will also find famous cases in this book like the one of Andre Yates who murdered her 5!!! babies but was found to be suffering from postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis, and was in the end found not to be guilty by reason of insanity.

So many interesting stories.

In the end there was one chapter I could not read.Heaven can't wait about idiotic religious zealots who let their kids die because their religion says no interference. Why it angered me was because nearly all parents in that chapter were allowed to do this without being punished and their kids suffered.
(This is why I have come to see religion as a thing used by mostly men to control stupid women)
4.5 stars. show less

It's a premise near and dear to my heart -- apartment dweller driven nuts the noise made by inconsiderate upstairs neighbors. The book is good enough that I stayed up late, compulsively turning pages to see what happened. The writing is a bit clumsy, though, so I was skimming to see what happened, rather than reading carefully. I think she'll write some good books, but isn't quite there yet.

This is a well-researched and well-written book about a section of criminals abhorred by all. 'Child Predators Who Kill' is the sub-title of the book but it is much more than this. Carol Anne Davis takes you through the reasoning, planning and final phases of these crimes and offers insights into how the perpetrators' minds work. Often, these paedophiles (not all of them kill) do not accept that they are doing wrong which is very frightening when you realise that they are, indeed, released show more from jail to offend again. Dreadful subject but a very good book. show less