Nine of 10 UK bestselling paperbacks feature a murdered woman
Nine out of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
maryan506.bsky.social5Pretty much the same in TV drama .
beau-burnside-iii.bsky.social2Also, all the victims were wearing matching underwear.
MsPottingShed1It's why I've given up on crime drama on the telly. I used to love it, but no longer. I realised that women were getting murdered at a rate of knots and that in no time at all I'd forgotten which drama was which anyway, so formulaic is it. None of the stories stuck 1/2
Pete Hudson 🇬🇧🇨🇵🇪🇺🏴🇮🇪🇳🇱🏴🇮🇳 #FBPE1A good point, last year in the UK the proportion is 58% men, 42% women!
Titianted1Worse is that fact that if the women is raped and murdered she has a serious character flaw or has done something bad - if a female victim is feared abducted by a sexual predator but is 'good' she will be rescued untouched or died accidentally. Common in films too - taken is the worst
Lynne1Try reading historic fiction set in England, the treatment of women is evil and although fiction you know the writer has done their research.
