Breaking and Entering: How Deon Meyer’s New Novel Snuck Past Genre Boundaries

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Breaking and Entering: How Deon Meyer’s New Novel Snuck Past Genre Boundaries

Here’s a confession: I don’t think about genre when I’m writing. Especially not during the planning, the research or the writing process. And mostly not after it’s finished, either. Look, I am perfectly aware of the extended family tree of crime fiction’s secondary categories. And I know most of my Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido novels fall into the grouping of police procedurals, the subgenre pioneered by Lawrence Treat’s V as in Victim (1945…