Fridging? If that means what I think it does, it's a common characteristic of genre mystery novels. The victim in the conventional type of this story is not a human being, but serves the sole function of a plot point to kick off a puzzle. This is for a practical purpose, to prevent the reader from being distracted by sympathy for the victim. A novel featuring grieving over a death would be a different kind of a story, and that and a mystery-solving puzzle would get in each other's way. Dislike this convention if you prefer (I do, which is why I read few novels of this kind), but that's why it's there.
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Date: 2016-10-23 12:13 am (UTC)