The first book’s journey, from initial idea to publication took fourteen years. Was the writing process of your second fiction novel any different from your first and how? Crime and mystery fiction has been a first love of mine since I was very young – so it was very natural for me to immediately think of writing a historical crime novel. So much of my academic research is on old Bangalore/Bengaluru, and I knew I wanted to write a book set in this time and setting, which I love so much. Historical non-fiction is very important to develop a scholarly perspective, but it is fiction that gets us into the past. What inspires you to write historical crime fiction?Īppreciating the past is essential for us to understand the present, and think about where we seem to be headed in the future. Her debut crime fiction novel The Bangalore Detectives Club was published in 2022, and the sequel Murder Under a Red Moon was released this year. In the city: Bengaluru in the past, present and future are widely read. University, a public speaker and writer on issues of nature and sustainability. Harini Nagendra is a professor of ecology at Azim Premji
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |