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JOANNA BAKER

Murder, Mystery, Villages, Tasmania

  • About
    • About Joanna
    • Like you …
    • Reading Agatha Christie on the Lonely Edge of the World
  • The Three Villages Murder Mysteries
    • Devastation Road
    • Devastation Road: Readers’ Notes and Discussion Points
    • The Elsinore Vanish
      • Readers’ Notes, The Elsinore Vanish
      • The Elsinore Vanish: Some Thoughts
    • Evermore. Out now.
  • The Slipping Place
    • The Slipping Place
    • The Slipping Place blurb
    • The Ideas Behind The Slipping Place
    • The Slipping Place: Readers’ Notes
    • Hobart
    • Praise for The Slipping Place
    • Acknowledgements, The Slipping Place
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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. I'm also deeply attached to murder mysteries of all kinds."

Somerset and Snowflakes

September 5, 2022July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

I have great hopes for this idea ...

The Unputdownable and the Unpickupable

August 29, 2022July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

“If a narrative is going to be as clumsy as that, can’t it have some guns?” 

THE MR JONES MOMENT

August 22, 2022July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is.

Detective Fiction. Murder Mysteries.

August 15, 2022July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ 1 Comment

To some extent the terms are interchangeable. But what are the connotations?

You Are Not Alone

August 8, 2022July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

The world is saturated with murder mysteries.

Strychnine and the Wild Surmise

August 1, 2022July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ 1 Comment

Upstairs, in a fine old house, Mrs Inglethorp dies of strychnine poisoning ...

Familiarity

July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

There are many reasons we might pick up a detective novel. One is obvious and very simple: We know we enjoyed the last one.

The Cleverest Christie: The Reversal

July 24, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

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

A Thought to Live By

November 20, 2019 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

From The School of Life

MURDER MYSTERIES AND PHILOSOPHY

November 18, 2019July 25, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

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

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Devastation Road. "Outstanding" "Intelligent and sensitive". Available online everywhere as paperback and ebook. Buy now.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Elsinore Vanish is now available everywhere as paperback and ebook. Buy now.

Evermore. The third of the Three Villages Murder Mysteries. Out now.

The Slipping Place is available online in paperback and ebook. Buy now.

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