Like Tartt, Ellroy and Mankell, Collins uses the prologue to thrust us into a scene of murderous violence, as we see the adventurer John Herncastle murdering the diamond's guardians as the British army storms the stronghold of Tippoo Sultan.
Crazy, murderous violence hasn't spread across the land.
The murderous violence against one girl was committed against the whole of Pakistani society.
Members of his family and friends say this tipped him over the edge into murderous violence.
The murderous violence that followed from Cairo to Benghazi was criminal.
There were no reports of public tension, much less murderous violence, between them.
(We expect soldiers to move easily between murderous violence and family life).
Tells about the murderous violence in Feb., 1988 in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait.
I'd like to see more coverage, not less, of murderous violence in the U.S.
In both of Tartt's novels, prologues isolate episodes of murderous violence.
They have come to that conclusion slowly, after four years of murderous violence.
