I like the idea but admit that the only books I know in which this has been done successfully (eg. the perfume) have either done:
a) made the villain sympathetic by describing his actions as a result of some form of trauma, therefore turning him or her into a victim themselves.
or by
b) just as in Othello, making the protagonist the stronger characters but drawing the reader in through his or her attachment to the victims.
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