Are you sure you're not making the mistake of confusing a character's beliefs with the authors?

As far as the murders, have you ever seen an action movie?

Have you ever read a novel and gotten an insistent background vibe from it that says "something isn't quite right with the person who wrote this"? I got this pretty strong from John C. Wright's The Golden Age trilogy, even though I started reading it knowing next to nothing about Wright.

This doesn't seem very consistent though. Most people I've talked with seem to like The Golden Age a lot.