The May 2019 issue of Writing Magazine featured a free supplement on the technicalities of writing crime fiction, which was definitely required reading for all would-be crime novelists.
This article is going to talk about the moral responsibilities of all those crime novelists whose novels feature one or several murders. Goodness – that sounds a bit heavy! Do writers of crime fiction actually have any moral responsibilities? After all, they’re writing entertainment fiction, aren’t they: stories to while away a few leisure hours of welcome escape from everyday life?