Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has degrees in English and Law from Melbourne University and was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written three series, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D'Arcy, is an award-winning children's writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. 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 twenty 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. In 2003 Kerry won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Association.
Crime strikes close to home in this latest installment of
Greenwood's charming series (The Castlemaine Murders, etc.)
featuring 1920s Aussie amateur sleuth, Phryne Fisher. The engaging
cast of familiar supporting characters - including Phryne's maid,
Dot, and her Chinese lover, Lin Chung - will delight longtime fans,
but newcomers who like their crime on the lighter side can jump in
without any trouble.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Soignée Australian socialite detective Phryne Fisher tracks not one
but two missing girls.... Friends and lovers past and present all
have their parts to play as Phryne makes alternately pleasing and
horrifying discoveries in her search for the missing young
ladies.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
The dialogues are a feast for the mind, and at times of such
elegance, they are nearly swoon-inducing.--Monique Daoust "Fresh
Fiction"
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