
Murder Mystery
Balli Kaur Jaswal + Dann McDorman + Jennifer Croft
Queensland Terrace, slq
Regular Program
1104
#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Expect the unexpected in these innovative treatments of the classic murder mystery. Equal parts gripping yarns and elegant intellectual puzzles, these books are love letters to a classic genre.
#Artists
Balli Kaur Jaswal
Balli Kaur Jaswal is the author of five novels, including the international bestseller Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows which was a Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club pick in 2018. She has held fellowships at the University of East Anglia and Nanyang Technological University, where she also completed her PhD in South Asian diaspora writing. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar India, Refinery29 and Salon.com, among other publications.
Dann McDorman
Dann McDorman is an Emmy-nominated TV news producer, who has also worked as a newspaper reporter, book reviewer, and cabinet maker. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
Jennifer Croft
Jennifer Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula’s August, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (a finalist for the Kirkus Prize).







