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Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers Paperback – April 10, 2002

by Carol Anne Davis (Author)

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Why does a young woman lure teenagers into her car then participate in their horrific rape and torture? What makes a nurse lethally inject the healthy babies in her care? Women, statistically, aren`t a violent breed ... but the female of the species can be just as deadly as the male.
From the mass poisoner to the sexual sadist, from profit killings to crimes committed just for twisted thrills, Carol Anne Davis sets out to explore the dark and disturbing world of the female serial killer. In depth analysis of individual cases, including new information from the minister who heard Myra Hindley`s confession, provides an invaluable insight into the psychology behind these atrocities.

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434 pages
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English
Publisher

Allison & Busby
Publication date

April 10, 2002
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4.75 x 1.25 x 7.25 inches
ISBN-10

0749005726
ISBN-13

978-0749005726
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'Davis writes in a way that keeps the reader's interest while describing the detailed lives of 14 women who have been classified as serial killers...Recommended for all true-crime collections'Library Journal

About the Author

CAROL ANNE DAVIS was born in Dundee, moved to Edinburgh in her twenties and now lives in the south of England. She left school at fifteen and was everything from an artist`s model to an editorial assistant before going to university. Her MA degree included criminology and was followed by a postgraduate diploma in Adult and Community Education. She is an expert on true-crime and is the author of the bestselling '...Who Kill' series.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Allison & Busby; New edition (April 10, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0749005726
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0749005726
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.75 x 1.25 x 7.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,477,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,783 in Serial Killers True Accounts
- #10,412 in Murder & Mayhem True Accounts
- #25,737 in Women's Studies (Books)

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THE FEMALE KILLER

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2012

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'WOMEN WHO KILL' BY CAROL ANNE DAVIES WAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD READ. BECAUSE DAVIES ISN'T TRYING TO PUSH HER OWN OPINIONS AND AGENDA, THIS MEANS THAT SHE GIVES AN EXTREMELY HONEST AND BALANCED ANALYSIS OF THIS MOST RARE BUT DEADLY CREATURE; THE FEMALE SERIAL KILLER. ALSO, DAVIES WRITES IN A VERY DOWN TO EARTH MANNER, WHICH MADE THIS BOOK HIGHLY READABLE. SOME CRIMINOLOGISTS ARE SO FULL OF THEIR OWN SELF-IMPORTANCE WHEN WRITING BOOKS, THAT THEY FEEL THAT THEY HAVE TO WAFFLE ON IN LANGUAGE THAT CAN BE DIFFICULT FOR A LAY-PERSON TO UNDERSTAND. DAVIES GIVES AN IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS OF SOME OF THE MOST TERRIFYING WOMEN IN HISTORY, AND TRIES TO PENETRATE THEIR PSYCHES AND ANSWER THAT AGE-OLD QUESTION; WHAT MAKES A HUMAN BEING DO SUCH TERRIBLE THINGS?.

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E. Cummings

I expected just a little more

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2007

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It's a good book, don't get me wrong, it just doesn't going into the depths I would have liked of these women's pasts. It routinely portrays them as victims of their situations and a pawn for their husband/boyfriend/lovers plans instead of a willing participant. Surely not all of these women are as frail as they are made out to be

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Dannie

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Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2018

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It was a gift to my daughter. It arrived in no time. My daughter started reading it right away. She loved the book.

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2015

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The book is boring on some parts

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fun and easily digestible read

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2017

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perfect book to read while waiting in an office or parking lot - each chapter short but absorbing, addressing different killers

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Diane Mae Robinson, Multi-award-winning children's author

Informative and Intriguing

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2013

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The author has done a great job with the investigative reporting of the cases in this book. Very informative and intriguing.

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Casondra

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2016

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Good book for citing. Decent read as well.

Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2008

I thought this book was really interesting. The cases that she used were great. You can definitely tell that the writer is British but it's still not a bad read. I really enjoyed it.

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David Irvin

some notorious like Britain's Rose West

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2017

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This is a well-written and riveting read. Carol Anne Davis presents well-researched accounts of more than a dozen female killers, some notorious like Britain's Rose West, others not so well known, particularly on this side of the Atlantic. It is not fiction, and not only a riveting piece of work, but a shocking one, with stories of the greatest evil and cruelty that one could imagine.

aepr94

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2014

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Good book for anybody interested in crime

Mummyblue

Interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2018

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I'm really into crime so this was awesome for me.
Carol Anne Davis writes beautifully...easy to follow and gripping

CatherineB

Average

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2013

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This book was an easy read and delivers on grizzly details of the crimes. It doesn't however delve into the psychology of these women or really ask why they committed these crimes, what drove them to it or go into the bigger picture of women vs men in any great detail. I found this book frustrating for those reasons but also because there are a myriad of proof-reading errors that kept pulling me out of the book and it eventually made me question the author's credibility.

On this latter point, the main reason I rated this book 3/5 is because I feel this writer is in no way an authority on this matter. She has an M.A (from what university it doesn't say, which also isn't promising) that "included criminology", and then went on to do a diploma in education. Criminology is the study of crime, not the study of criminals themselves (which is forensic psychology), so what makes her informed enough to publish a book about these criminals I don't know, and her education as a whole seems questionable in the context of this subject. She also refers many times to other authors and praises them for their work which almost seemed over the top at times.

In short, it was an entertaining read (I'm sure the novels she's written are very good), but as a book based on fact and informed opinion it falls short of the mark for me.

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Jean

Pure evil women

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2017

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Enjoyed this book gives you insight into women's mind, some of them must of been born with pure evilness in them.

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