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Author: Joanna Baker

Joanna's first murder mystery novel was reviewed as "outstanding' in The Age, Melbourne. Her current book, The Slipping Place, is a multi-layered page-turning murder mystery, set in Hobart, available in all Australian bookshops and online. Learn more at joannabakerauthor.com. "I'm a sixth-generation Tasmanian, deeply attached to the place and very proud. On Tasmania Stories (tasmaniastories.com and FB) I present short pieces drawn from Tasmania's history and culture."

A Thought to Live By

November 20, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

From The School of Life

MURDER MYSTERIES AND PHILOSOPHY

Featured ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Murder mysteries can be about death and the profound mystery of life itself.

Literary Murder Mystery

November 17, 2019November 18, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

What does it mean to say a mystery novel is literary?

An act of infinite cruelty

November 17, 2019January 1, 2021 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Sometimes it feels as if the murder victim has been inserted into a book as a prop, to make the story happen for other people.

Einstein and Mystery

July 6, 2019May 26, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

The Impossible

June 29, 2019May 26, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

The Elsinore Vanish is a variation of the classical locked-room mystery.

Ah, the French

June 28, 2019May 26, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Roland Barthes proposes an erotics of reading. And crime fiction does not come off well.

The Cleverest Christie: The Reversal

June 14, 2019November 19, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Readers believe we are solving one particular mystery, when all along something else entirely has been going on.

The Limits of Reason

June 8, 2019November 11, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Chess is good at staying rational, and this is what allowed her to solve the previous mystery. That commitment to logic is about to be tested.

Greek Tragedy and Freud: Auden on the Detective Story

May 30, 2019May 26, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

For W. H. Auden detective fiction embodied a timeless idea, which appears in Classical, Christian and Freudian thought. 

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Devastation Road is now available free. "Intelligent and sensitive" "Outstanding"

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Devastation Road "Outstanding" "Intelligent and sensitive". Available online everywhere as paperback or ebook.

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