Hobart is beautiful and vibrant, but it sits on the edge of two great emptinesses.
The Lonely Edge of the World
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."
Somerset and Snowflakes
I have great hopes for this idea ...
Strychnine and the Wild Surmise
Upstairs, in a fine old house, Mrs Inglethorp dies of strychnine poisoning ...
Forgotten Facts and Hidden Meanings
You can’t really discuss Australian crime fiction without mentioning Jane Harper’s first book. It has been spectacularly successful. Here's one reason.
The Lonely Edge of the World
Hobart sits on the edge of two great emptinesses. In a way I think we have inherited a deep sense of loneliness.
The Social Mask
Agatha Christie can be taken seriously as a modernist author.
The Unputdownable and the Unpickupable
“If a narrative is going to be as clumsy as that, can’t it have some guns?”
Everyday Mysteries and Larger Ones
There are things we should know, there is something we should be seeing.
THE MR JONES MOMENT
Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is.
Something at the corner of vision, that vanishes as you turn towards it.
The Slipping Place a page-turning murder mystery, but it also a meditation on the mind. It is about lies, secrets and unspeakable cruelty. It is about the things we thought we knew, and the things we miss… and it is about a choice, a decision point, that is infinitely, vanishingly, terrifyingly small. see: joannabakerauthor.com … Continue reading Something at the corner of vision, that vanishes as you turn towards it.
