Popular and critically acclaimed novelist Thomas Perry, best known for The Butcher’s Boy (1982) and the Jane Whitefield series, has died.
I want the five quarts of blood to go out on the ground so that people know that this is real, a big deal to kill somebody . . . When I write something violent, afterward, I am depressed. It depresses me. What I am trying to do is have other people affected by it in the same way I am. That is, both to be afraid and then to be sad about it.
