About Shrouded

Douglas likes women - quiet women; the kind he deals with at the mortuary where he works. Douglas meets Marjorie, unemployed, gaining weight and losing confidence. She talks and laughs a lot to cover up her shyness, but what Douglas really needs is a lover who'll stay still - perfectly still. Perhaps he can put Marjorie into a state of limbo and use her to feed his growing sexual hunger. Douglas studies his textbooks to find a way ...

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

'Davis reminds me strongly of Barbara Vine, but with darker edges and more sexual tension than is found in Vine's work. Douglas in particular is a striking creation, the more so because we are with him every step of the way in his evolution from outsider to sex killer ... This novel gives voice and substance to characters too often ignored in contemporary English fiction, and at the same time builds to a nerve-jangling finale ... Crime fiction is no longer inferior to literary fiction: the best of it is literary fiction.' -- Ian Rankin

'An accomplished crime novel... Well written and appropriately claustrophobic.' --Time Out