I’m horrified by how brutal crime fiction has become. Have we gone too far? - Sydney Morning Herald

What would Ruth Rendell make of an Ozark episode in which a man’s fingernails were pulled out and a baby was plunged into a lake?

I get very tired of violence in crime fiction, the great murder-mystery novelist Ruth Rendell once said. Maybe it is what life is like, but I dont want to do it in my books. I wondered what Rendell … [+2074 chars]

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