HF> I have a very low violence and cruelty threshold, but actual gore is a
 HF> separate issue, somehow.
RW> I guess I can see how people would be able to seperate the two, but
RW> they do usually go hand in hand.
Oh, I don't know, someone slowly bleeding and losing consciousness, as
in Ellis Peter's Death Mask, while still trying to outwit the bad guy
was a lot more tolerable than the torture and violence in that one
Patricia Cornwell I read, where the victim really had no chance at all.
RW> You'd also probably like John Straley as his books tend to avoid
RW> torture and violence, but can be gorey.
I'm definitely watching for that name, but haven't seen it on any of my
recent used book forays.
... Garlic is to salad as insanity is to art.
 * Q-Blue 1.0 *    Helen Fleischer is helen@mbbs.com in Fairland, MD
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