What is Carol Anne Davis reading?

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Carol Anne Davis, author of true crime books and realistic crime novels. Her new book is Parents Who Kill: Murderers of Newborn, Pre-Teen And Teenage Children.

Her entry begins:

I’ve just finished Flat Earth News by Nick Davies (published by Vintage), a brilliant expose of modern journalism. He courageously examines our increasingly-corrupt global media and what he calls `the mass production of ignorance.’Having personally been misquoted by journalists - and had comments taken out of context - many times, I was already aware that what an interviewee says and what the public gets to read can vary wildly. I also knew that papers invented stories: one Sunday tabloid produced a feature about a celebrity prisoner being beaten up, but, at the time, I was doing research in that prison and know for a fact that the celebrity was unscathed.

I was also aware of how difficult it is to get...[read on]

Carol Anne Davis was born in Scotland but currently lives in England.

In 2007 she applied the Page 99 Test to her novel, Sob Story.

Ian Rankin has said of her work: "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."

The Page 99 Test: Sob Story.

Writers Read: Carol Anne Davis.

--Marshal Zeringue