Baker's Work

by Joel Mark Harris

Journalist John Webster has just finished one of the biggest news stories of his life involving the murder of a billionaire. But when a washed-up conspiracy blogger, Melvin Hardwood, starts asking questions John begins to doubt the killer, who is sitting on Death Row, actually committed the crime. John Webster and Melvin Hardwood go on a journey to find out who the real killer is and what they find out is the conspiracy runs much deeper than either could anticipate and goes right up through the government, the United Nations, and a large search engine company called RePhrase. Riddled by guilt that John helped convict the wrong man, he and Hardwood will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the truth even as people start dying all around and John's own life is put in jeopardy. As the clock runs down, can he find the truth before it's true late?

450 pages, Paperback

Published June 18, 2016

About the author

Joel Mark Harris is an award-winning British-Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter and producer. Born in Vancouver, he graduated from Langara Journalism School in 2007 and worked for the Squamish Chief newspaper before freelancing. At Langara, Joel got the idea to write a series of books about a journalist, the first of which is called A Thousand Bayonets. In the novel, a former war correspondent named John Webster maneuvers through the seedy underworld of Vancouver, trying to bring a vicious drug lord to justice. A Thousand Bayonets won an Editor’s Choice Award from Author Solutions.

In 2008, Joel went to British Columbia Institute of Technology for a public relations degree. After doing various jobs in the PR field, Joel wrote and produced Neutral Territory, a film about Henry Huge, who must return to his crazy Swiss family after falling into money troubles. Neutral Territory was nominated for a Maverick Award for Best Cinematography and Best Picture at the Beloit Film Festival. It won best feature film at the Interrobang Film Festival. It is also an official selection of the Beijing International Film Festival and the New York International Film Festival. Joel was nominated for best screenplay for Neutral Territory in the World Music & Independent Film Festival

Joel is currently writing a screenplay called Shots, a coming-of-age story about Carter, a teenager, who gets his first job at a coffee shop. He is also working on a sequel to his novel called Shame the Devil.