One of my favourite random things when reading novels where people get murdered is to count the number, work out the population homicide rate, and laugh a bit because it's usually worse than Columbia in the 1950s by A LONG WAY
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We tend to think that murder is relatively common, but in Australia (where these books are set) the homicide victimisation rate is about 1.5 per 100k people per year, or 0.0015% risk, overall, and about half that in rural areas
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As someone who occasionally watches the British TV Show Midsomer Murders I have wondered the same thing: surely someone would remark on the staggering murder rate of this bucolic idyll
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Yes that was actually my inspiration for this little piece of sillinesshttps://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20910859 …
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