It’s All About the Fantasy

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It’s no secret that I write about that most terrible of crimes — murder — for fun and profit. The murders in my novels are fictional and genteel; they may involve violence, but said violence is never on-camera and is not generally deeply disturbing: it arises out of personal conflicts and histories, specific murders of specific people for specific reasons. That keeps it safe: the random violence that so often occurs in the real world is…