Murder mysteries can be about death and the profound mystery of life itself.
MURDER MYSTERIES AND PHILOSOPHY
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."
Literary Murder Mystery
What does it mean to say a mystery novel is literary?
Einstein and Mystery
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
Ah, the French
Roland Barthes proposes an erotics of reading. And crime fiction does not come off well.
The Limits of Reason
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
For W. H. Auden detective fiction embodied a timeless idea, which appears in Classical, Christian and Freudian thought.
The Lonely Edge of the World
Hobart is beautiful and vibrant, but it sits on the edge of two great emptinesses.
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.
JOANNA BAKER 