I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.