Today I'm delighted to welcome Nick Taussig to my blog as part of my crime fiction week features. He kindly agreed to answer a few questions about how he came to be a crime fiction writer and also gives us a little insight into his latest book The Distinguished Assassin which has recently been published.Tell us a little bit about yourself and how you came to be a crime writer?
Hell, if I couldn’t be a criminal in the real world, then at least I could be one in a pretend world.
On a more serious note, I think that the majority of people find crime a compelling and intriguing subject, the great allure of tabloids testimony to this. What is that drives someone to crime, to transgress the law? We find this question absorbing because the majority of us, in truth, have all come very close, and yet something holds us back, be this greater self-control, moral responsibility or goodness. The reasons for crime are normally manifold and complex. I also wanted to write a crime novel, on a more practical note, because my other books suffer from the affliction of not falling into any clear genre, a bad thing if one wants to actually sell some books as well as write them.
