Can I get more with less?

I am an avid reader, and of course want to be a writer that people read avidly. But I've hit a bump in the road. Not with writing, I'm not even sure I'm on a road with that, much less the right road. No, the bump I've hit is with the books I'm finding to read. It seems that every time I pick up a good whodunit these days, somewhere in the first 25 pages I'm forced to read the description of murder not just "so foul", but so gruesome. Successful writers appear to be in a contest to see who can describe rape, torture, murder and mutilation in the most macabre manner. Now, in the couple of things I've actually written, I admittedly have bumped off some folks - after all, murder sells. So it's not the act itself that I am finding repugnant, it's the lengths to which it's being taken and being described. I mean, are there really that many deviants out there who not only serially slay, but then slice, dice, pose, and write notes in the blood of their victims? And if there are, do they really only take young, beautiful girls/women? Come on, guys, I still enjoy reading you; after all, it's the writing, not the crime, that makes you successful. But here's one voice out in the wilderness that's saying, look, it's okay with me if you just kill them and taunt the police. You don't have to disembowel, or cut off the eyelids, or keep toe trophies, or perform your own version of autopsy. Killing is enough for me. So if you don't mind, go on out there and let your bad guys kill a whole bunch of people for me to read about and for your protagonist to catch. I can read faster than you can write, so there'll always be a market. But for one of your fans at least, killing is enough. Spare me the gore. Can't wait for the next one to come out!