One recent crime novel - 'Still waters' by Nigel McCrery (of BBC TV 'Silent Witness' fame)- still makes me squeamish when I think about it.
Spoiler warning. The basic plot is about a killer bumping off elderly ladies - sometimes confusing the police by pretending to be the victim so the death is not noticed at once.
Anyway, the books starts with a group of young children staying with an elderly and batty relative. One young girl causes some minor damage to the relative's roses or something. Anyway, the batty relative punishes her - by cutting her fingers off with gardening shears. To me, over the top and an utterly unpleasant idea in what was a moderately decent crime novel. You can imagine why she hates old ladies.
John
--- In rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jeter <michael.damian.jeter@...> wrote:
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> I am sorry. It is early. I mention Vachss becasues so much of his work
> rvolves around the evil done to children.
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> Michael Jeter
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Michael Jeter <
> michael.damian.jeter@...> wrote:
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> > On the larger question, are you familiar with Andrew Vachss?
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> > On the quote from the post below, I wonder if Seth MacFarland knows ¨The
> > Small Assassin¨?
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> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:18 AM, David Wright <dwright333@...>wrote:
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> >> In fact, at my storytime for adults next Monday I'll be reading Ray
> >> Bradbury's "The Small Assassin," which is a really disturbing and horrifying
> >> story of a newborn baby who narrowly fails to kill his mother in
> >> childbirth, and works to finish the job,
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> > Michael Damian Jeter
> > New Orleans, LA
> > Literacy, Music, and Democracy
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