Mike Nicol: There’s More to Crime Fiction than Meets the Eye
In an interview with Diane de Beer, Mike Nicol says he turned to a life of crime writing after his work in magical realism failed to take hold with an audience. Nicol, who has recently completed his crime trilogy, Killer Country, Payback and Black Heart, tells de Beer that he always thought of himself as “too superior” for crime writing, but discovered there is more to the genre than “meets the jaundiced eye”.
Nicol will launch his latest book, Monkey Business: The Murder of Anni Dewani, at the Open Book Festival next week:
His earlier work in magic realism didn’t do well in this country, that is why Mike Nicol turned to crime.
In writing, of course, not reality.
He was fascinated by how well local author Deon Meyer was doing, but had always thought himself too superior for crime writing. Once he started delving deeper, he discovered there was far more to the genre than met his jaundiced eye.
And as Meyer sits across the table from now good friend Nicol, the then novice to crime writing tips a hat at the more seasoned author. In the meantime, Nicol has finished his first crime trilogy and might just have kept going with this particular gang if his partner hadn’t advised him to move on to something and someone else.
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- Killer Country by Mike Nicol
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- Payback by Mike Nicol
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- Black Heart by Mike Nicol
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- Monkey Business: The Murder of Anni Dewani: the facts, the fiction, the spin by Mike Nicol
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