Nine of 10 UK bestselling paperbacks feature a murdered woman
I mean, yes, but on the other hand I bet anyone who could be arsed to go through the data would find this is a pretty standard week in popular fiction.
KJ Charles75I'd also bet there are weeks when a man is murdered in every top ten book. We really like murder in our entertainment.
TL Merrybard2I can 't be doing with that any more. One of the many joys of the aussie tv show Deadloch is that men are killed instead of women. So refreshing! :D
Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - I should be writing!2I'm about 50/50 in my murder victim selection. Try to keep it fair.
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.
I feel like The Salt Oracle is pulling its weight in redressing this problem tbh Body count: high Gender bias: 100% men Sorry my dudes, I guess you just make good plot devices, what's an author to do? 🤷🏽♀️ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
AK Faulkner 🔜 The Unseelie Gathering5Look, if something bad doesn't happen to the men, what will drive the protagonist?!
Brent 🍻🐜 📖 1Who am I to argue with the author? [toddles off and orders the book]
phoebe, merryops enthusiast1Gender parity of deaths in novels is a misleading statistic. Internet Ghosts Wilson, who has killed 27 million male characters, is an outlier but, tbh, should honestly be counted.
