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Nine of ten UK bestselling novels feature murdered female characters
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Nine of ten UK bestselling novels feature murdered female characters
A survey of this week's Sunday Times bestseller list found that nine of the top ten fiction paperbacks center on the death of at least one woman.
- Wendy Jones wrote that 84% of books on the list involve a woman being murdered for entertainment.
- Laura Wilson said female murder victims are far more likely to be killed by people they know than male victims.
- Denise Mina traced the trope to 18th-century broadsheet sellers who found that fabricated crimes sold copies when the victim was a pretty young white woman.
- Only The Correspondent, a novel about letter writing, broke the trend.
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