One Book details the death of a disabled child, and readers find themselves sympathising with the murderer. In another, four members of a family are killed during a house break-in, and readers are surprised by the politeness and sensitivity of one of the perpetrators. Fiction often positions itself, sometimes uncomfortably, in the grey area between good and bad. Such was the case in Hannah Kent's The Good People and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, among many others. In The Good People, a child