About Sob Story

Amy thinks that Jeff, her prison penpal, will be inside for several years. He lied - his release date is imminent. She believes that he's a gentle, misunderstood young man. She's wrong - he's a killer who plans to kill again. As the body count mounts, will she realise that she's being stalked by a sadistic psychopath? Or will she, too, endure a slow, painful death?

About Carol Davis

'The Queen Of Noir' - Booklist Carol Anne Davis is the author of Shrouded, Safe As Houses and Noise Abatement and the true crime Women Who Kill: Profiles Of Female Serial Killers. Her true crime features and reviews appear in monthly magazines and she's appeared at various literary events including Crime Scene, Dead On Deansgate and St Hilda's College, Oxford. Her most recent dark crime novel Kiss It Away was published in autumn 2003 and the paperback of her true crime book Children Who Kill in April 2004. Couples Who Kill : Profiles Of Deviant Duos was published in March 2005. more

'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. This is our world, skewed and skewered, revealed in its true sanguinary colours. You've got to read her.' - Ian Rankin