The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Are Crime Novels getting too violent? Jo Nesbo said he 'went too far' with violence in The Leopard.

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Both reached No 1 in 'Murder' and 'Psychological Thrillers' in UK Kindle charts.

I refer you to Red Harvest, 1929, not to mention a lot of the hard-boiled crime writing that followed it.

The level and detail in the violence ebbs and flows over time and, in my opinion, it's only 'too much' if it's inappropriate for the story, or pornographic in the sense of revelling in the violence. Not that I especially want to read uber-violent prose, but it's equally inappropriate to write about violent things and gloss over the bloodshed.