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The Phryne Fisher series (pronounced Fry-knee, to rhyme with briny) began in 1989 with Cocaine Blues which was a great success. Kerry has written sixteen books in this series with no sign yet of Miss Fisher hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Kerry says that as long as people want to read them, she can keep writing them.

Kerry Greenwood has worked as a folk singer, factory hand, director, producer, translator, costume-maker, cook and is currently a solicitor. When she is not writing, she works as a locum solicitor for the Victorian Legal Aid. She is also the unpaid curator of seven thousand books, three cats (Attila, Belladonna and Ashe) and a computer called Apple (which squeaks). She embroiders very well but cannot knit. She has flown planes and leapt out of them (with a parachute) in an attempt to cure her fear of heights (she is now terrified of jumping out of planes but can climb ladders without fear). She can detect second-hand bookshops from blocks away and is often found within them.

For fun Kerry reads science fiction/fantasy and detective stories. She is not married, has no children and lives with a registered wizard. When she is not doing any of the above she stares blankly out of the window.

]]> female 83927 159058385X 9781590583852 42 <![CDATA[Cocaine Blues (A Phryne Fisher Mystery, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171047892m/83927.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171047892s/83927.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83927.Cocaine_Blues 3.73 197
The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher--she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions--is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia.


Almost immediately from the time she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism--not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse--until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.

]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 2006 382847 1590582411 9781590582411 14 <![CDATA[Murder on the Ballarat Train (A Phryne Fisher Mystery, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339142m/382847.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339142s/382847.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382847.Murder_on_the_Ballarat_Train 3.85 114
Phryne is left to piece together the clues after this restful country sojourn turns into the stuff of nightmares: a young girl who can't remember anything, rumors of white slavery and black magic, and the body of an old woman missing her emerald rings. Then there is the rowing team and the choristers, all deliciously engaging young men. At first they seem like a pleasant diversion....]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 1991 382843 1590582373 9781590582374 19 <![CDATA[Flying Too High (A Phryne Fisher Mystery, #2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339133m/382843.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339133s/382843.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382843.Flying_Too_High 3.66 119
Danger, excitement and love--this is how the glamorous Phryne Fisher is determined to live her life in her second enticing adventure.



Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight ought to be enough excitement for most people, but not Phryne Fisher, amateur detective, woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades.



In this, the second Phryne Fisher mystery, the 1920s' most talented and glamorous detective flies even higher, handling a murder, a kidnapping and the usual array of beautiful young men with style and consummate ease--and all before it's time to adjourn to the Queenscliff Hotel for breakfast. Whether she's flying planes, clearing a friend of homicide charges or saving a child from kidnapping, she handles everything with the same dash and elan with which she drives her red Hispano-Suiza.]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 1992 382840 1590582381 9781590582381 10 <![CDATA[Death at Victoria Dock (A Phryne Fisher Mystery, #4)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339111m/382840.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339111s/382840.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382840.Death_at_Victoria_Dock 3.67 101


Enraged by the loss of the clothing, the damage to her car, and this senseless waste of human life, Phryne promises to find out who is responsible. But she doesn't yet know how deeply into the mire she'll have to go: bank robbery, tattoo parlours, pubs, spiritualist halls, and anarchists.



Along this path, Phryne meets Peter, a scarred but delectable wharfie who begins to unfold the mystery of who would need a machine gun in Melbourne. But when someone kidnaps her cherished companion, Dot, Phryne will stop at nothing to retrieve her.]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 1992 1339024 1590583930 9781590583937 22 <![CDATA[Earthly Delights: Corinna Chapman Mystery]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182851433m/1339024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182851433s/1339024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1339024.Earthly_Delights_Corinna_Chapman_Mystery 3.68 96 Corinna is living in an eccentric building on the Roman model called Insula, which has eight stories, sixteen apartments, and a lot of strange and interesting people. These include a retired professor of classics, Dionysius Monk; a Dutch gardener named Trudi; Mr. and Mrs. Pemberthy and their rotten little doggie, Traddles; a pair of disgustingly thin, would-be soapie stars Goss and Kylie; and a jobbing witch, Meroe of The Sibyl's Cave.
Corinna is quite content with her cat Horatio and her shop until a junkie falls half dead on her grate, a gorgeous sabra stalks along her alley and tells her that she is beautiful, and she starts receiving threatening letters accusing her of being a scarlet woman.
Then it is Goths, lost girls, fraud, late nights, nerds, and beautiful slaves. Life for Corinna has suddenly become interesting. And she still needs to get her bread out in time for the morning rush....
Includes recipes. Earthly Delights is the first book in this delicious new series by the award-winning author who brought us the Phryne Fisher series.]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 2004 382839 1590582403 9781590582404 10 <![CDATA[The Green Mill Murder (A Phryne Fisher Mystery, #5)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339088m/382839.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339088s/382839.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382839.The_Green_Mill_Murder 3.66 91
The dance competition is trailing into its last hours when suddenly, in the middle of "Bye Bye Blackbird" a figure slumps to the ground. No shot was heard. Phryne, conscious of how narrowly the missile missed her own bare shoulder, back, and dress, investigates.

This leads her into the dark smoky jazz clubs of Fitzroy, into the arms of eloquent strangers, and finally into the the sky, as she follows a complicated family tragedy of the great War and the damaged men who came back from ANZAC cove.

Phryne flies her Gypsy Moth Rigel into the Autralian Alps, where she meets a hermit with a dog called Lucky and a wombat living under his bunk....and risks her life on the love between brothers.]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 1993 382841 1590582802 9781590582800 3 <![CDATA[Castlemaine Murders, The: Phryne Fisher (Book 13)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339112m/382841.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339112s/382841.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382841.Castlemaine_Murders_The_Phryne_Fisher 3.58 88
Digging to the bottom of this longstanding mystery takes her to the country town of Castlemaine where it soon becomes obvious that someone is trying to muzzle her investigations. With unknown threatening assailants on her path, Phryne seems headed for more trouble than usual.

Meanwhile, Phryne's lover Lin Chung has his own mystery to solve. Feuding families and lost gold fill his mind until he learns that Phryne herself has become missing treasure.]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 2003 382844 1590582772 9781590582770 12 <![CDATA[Murder in Montparnasse:Phryne Fisher (Book 12)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339134m/382844.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174339134s/382844.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/382844.Murder_in_Montparnasse_Phryne_Fisher 3.62 86
The divine Phryne Fisher returns to lead another dance of intrigue.



Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead ... under very suspicious circumstances.



Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and Cec, appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918 and they fear for their lives and for those of the other three men. It's only as Phryne delves into the investigation that she, too, remembers being in Montparnasse on that very same day.



While Phryne is occupied with memories of Montparnasse past and the race to outpace the murderer, she finds troubles of a different kind at home. Her lover, Lin Chung, is about to be married. And the effect this is having on her own usually peaceful household is disastrous.]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 2002 1339025 1590583132 9781590583135 8 <![CDATA[Away With The Fairies: Phryne Fisher (Book 11)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182851434m/1339025.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182851434s/1339025.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1339025.Away_With_The_Fairies_Phryne_Fisher 3.68 84 Phryne Fisher is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, she takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung's family followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.</div>]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 2001 1339023 1590582357 9781590582350 13 <![CDATA[Blood and Circuses: Phryne Fisher (Book 6)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182851430m/1339023.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182851430s/1339023.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1339023.Blood_and_Circuses_Phryne_Fisher 3.56 84 Phryne must go undercover deeper than ever to solve the circus' malaise. She must abandon her name, her title, her protection, her comfort—even her clothes. She must fall off a horse twice a day until she can stay on. She must sleep in a girl's tent and dine on mutton stew. And she must find some allies.
Meanwhile, in Melbourne, the young and fresh-faced policeman Tommy Harris has to solve his own mysteries with the help of the foul-spoken harridan Lizard Elsie, or Miss Parkes will certainly hang. Can Phyrne uncover the truth without losing her life?]]> 48067 3.63 1997 324 1994