“Jack Adams skillfully unravels this unnerving tale of suspense with a keen sense of place and character. Asylum is well worth the price of admission.” B. Michael Radburn.

Joe was their friend; the man they spoke to through the wire fence of the Lunatic Asylum, along the banks of the Bremer River, and 10-year-old best friends, Nathan Walker and Adam Murphy, knew he wasn’t insane. He couldn’t be… he must have been locked up my mistake. Joe was an artist, and gentle, although sometimes he was confused and had burn marks on his skin. Then, one day, Joe was gone; life went on.

Now hitting their thirties—jobs and divorces in their wake—ex-cop, current P.I. Nate and psychiatrist Adam decide to share office space and a receptionist in Stones Corner, Brisbane… home to the second stores and more coffee outlets than inhabitants. It’s there that the letter arrives advising them that they have received ‘Expectations’. A quaint, old-fashioned bequest delivered by a solicitor which amounts to an inheritance for two boys – left by Joseph O’Connell, a missing-believed-deceased former patient at the River Park Lunatic Asylum.

The two men begin to investigate and start sharing more than office space; this case needs both of their skills to find Joe. Fueled by the appearance of a ‘hanging man’ wearing a sign with the word ‘Truth’ written on it, who makes an appearance at a ghost tour through the now-defunct asylum, Nate and Adam find the more they dig, the more dangerous it gets.