Previous Publications
Power Shift, A Kate Power Mystery Series, Hodder, 2003
Hidden Power, A Kate Power Mystery Series, Hodder, 2002
Head over Heals, Severn House, 2001

From the Author
Couples Who Kill profiles twenty six British and American murderers, many of them serial killers. Each profile explores the killer's background, the relationship with their co-killer, the homicides, and what has happened since the trial.
There are also fifteen case studies in themed chapters such as British Couples Who Kill Children and Bizarre Couples Who Kill, the latter including cases from Germany, Mexico and France.
Several of the couples were sadistic lovers, others were friends or close relatives. Yet even those who swore undying love had often turned on each other by the time they went to trial.
Because couples who kill are often lust murderers, the victims were mainly in their teens or early twenties. But there are exceptions - the oldest victim was seventy seven, the youngest only a few minutes old.
Though the cases are harrowing, there is occasionally hope: one teenage killer, hugely influenced by his much more damaged girlfriend, has studied psychology in prison for many years now, apparently understands his earlier pathology and genuinely seems to have turned his life around.
Once again I'm grateful to the authority figures I consulted, including a man who met serial killer Charles Ng and a woman who was abducted by Rose & Fred West. I also interviewed a crime writer who'd co-authored a book with a Home Office pathologist who autopsied one of the victims of a particularly vicious and largely forgotten British triple killer.
In the third of this series, which focuses on the psychology of murderers, Carol Anne Davis explores the formative influences of these killers and their deadly dynamics. Comprising of thirteen in-depth case studies and exclusive interviews with experts and one of the Wests' surviving victims, Couples Who Kill provides an unequalled study of this disturbing subject.

The body of a prostitute is found at Glasgow’s Queen Street Station, her hands, pointing towards her feet, placed as if in prayer, a small flower pressed between the palms. Psychologist Solomon Brightman is called to assist DCI Lorimer in the murder hunt, with the hope that his lateral thinking will shine a light on the case from a different angle.
But before any conclusions can be drawn, the body of a nurse is discovered at The Grange, a private clinic. Aside from the careful arrangement of the corpses, there is no obvious connection between the victims; Lorimer and Solomon are still very much in the dark. Then a third body turns up, and it seems increasingly clear that they have a serial killer on their hands.
A taut, suspense-filled thriller, A Small Weeping takes the reader on a gripping journey from the inner city to the wilds of the Outer Hebrides, and deep into the darkest depths of human nature.

‘A Glasgow Ian Rankin’ Inverness Courier
‘Gray enters the world of Caledonian Noir with a dark page-turner which firmly establishes the existential DCI Lorimer as a real threat to Inspector Rebus … tautly plotted with well developed characters and an engaging style’ Glasgow Herald
‘A page-turning novel. You will be hooked’ Yorkshire Gazette

Alex Gray was born and educated in Glasgow. She has worked as a folk singer, a visiting officer for the Dept of Social Security and an English teacher. She has been awarded the Scottish Association of Writers Constable and Pitlochry trophies for her crime writing. Married with a son and daughter, she now writes full time.

Just two days after Stuart and Grace arrive home from their honeymoon, Stuart's cantankerous old uncle, Duncan, passes away. Suspicions concerning his death are soon roused however, when it is discov- ered that substantial withdrawals have been made from Duncan's account since the time of his stroke, and that his death was not of natural causes. To her dismay, suspicion falls to Grace and the only key to proving her innocence may be encased in a bronze urn, buried for decades in her back garden.

When widower Sidney Middleton is found dead in his cottage from carbon monoxide poisoning, Sheila Malory is deeply disturbed. After all, a reputable local tradesman had given the suspect wood-burning stove a clean bill of health the week before. Then there's the fact that his son, David Middleton, had been keen in recent months to pack his father away to a nursing home - Sheila's suspicions that this was no accidental death just won't be quieted...

The year is 1775 and the entire town of Boston, Massachusetts, is seething with unrest as the War of Independence is about to erupt. With loyalties and love stretched to their lim- its, the lives of Thomas Gage, the British Governor of Massachusetts, his American wife, Margaret, and his young black slave girl, Sara, become inexorably combined. Conflict, heartbreak and death threaten to darken the futures of all involved, but with true love lighting their path, can the Governor and his lady find their way to happiness?

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Nestled in the fertile hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret: beautiful, timeless and quintessentially English. When Joel Jennison is found slaughtered in the same field where his brother's corpse had lain ten weeks previously, a whole community falls under suspicion. Was it a family feud? An act of revenge? Could Thea's employers, now relaxing in the Bahamas, have anything to do with the murder? In calling on her neighbours to get some answers, Thea uncovers more tragedy and intrigue than she thought possible behind the chocolate- box facade of a peaceful Gloucestershire village. As a forty-something woman with no previous experience of detective work, she knows she shouldn't be getting involved. But as her new friend Harry points out sometimes a fresh eye can see through the superficial tangles to where the truth lies. The first in a new series of thrillers.

`A deftly - written, thoroughly entertaining' Kirkus Reviews
`An assured, densely textured novel,.. Tope's large and memorable cast play out their parts with the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. ' Publisher's Weekly
`A sly but memorable book, which creeps up on the reader unawares' Yorkshire Post