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JOANNA BAKER

Murder, Mystery, Villages, Tasmania

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Category: Why Do We Love Murder Mysteries?

Crime Fiction and Literature

October 9, 2022October 9, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

Clive James has been trying to read a Henry James novel.

Maybe This Is You

October 9, 2022 ~ Joanna Baker ~ 1 Comment

You discovered mystery novels at a young age. You began reading one and you were instantly enthralled. You gobbled it down in one long fevered gulp ... and then you went searching for the next.

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.

You Are Not Alone

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

The world is saturated with murder mysteries.

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.

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.

Einstein and Mystery

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

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

Ah, the French

Featured ~ Joanna Baker ~ Leave a comment

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

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

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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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