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Originally Posted by Sparrow
I've enjoyed the Anne Perry mystery novels I've read. I don't remember them having sex and swearing (she's a Mormon).
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The problem with Anne Perry is that she's pretty notorious for the teenaged murder of her friend's mother. There are even movies, novels, and theatre plays about it.
And while the OP may well be one of those generous forgive and forget types of persons, I personally wouldn't want to support an author who made her money writing almost exclusively murder novels after she herself had performed one, and a pre-meditated one at that, even if it did happen decades ago and she served her jail time.
Chick lit romances or steampunk westerns, sure. But murder mysteries? No. Just…
no.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
(And poly characters. I don't think it would have occurred to me to even consider whether a story had polyamory if it didn't focus on the relationship itself.)
It seems likely that OP is mostly looking for non-genre fiction, and I'm completely lost there.
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It wouldn't have occurred to me either, but I also lurk at the Amazon Discussion boards, and every so often people complain about both the frequent Christian Fiction & erotica freebies and why can't they get more "clean"/non-evangelical free reading and so forth. You'd be amazed at what people will whine about being "tricked" into 1-clicking at absolutely no cost to themselves, even if they never even bother to read anything beyond the product page description and can delete the offending file from the Archives at any time.
As for what's very likely to be clean fantasy, I'm fairly certain that Patricia Wrede's Enchanted Forest Chronicles should be entirely free of sex, and have no strong language, and I'm pretty sure since it's an older YA title for younger teens that it shouldn't have the H or D words in it. And they're really fun reading.