Read Series: Phryne Fisher
by Author Kerry Greenwood
Raisins And Almonds (2000)
Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams. But Phryne's contentment at the Jewish Young People's Society Dance is cut short when Simon's father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout young student in Miss Sylvia Lee's bookshop located in the Eastern...
Death by Water (2005)
'Who are you?' asked the doctor. 'You are not the standard cruise passenger, I can tell you that.' 'Thank you,' said Phryne in a self-possessed manner. 'You are correct. I am a lot of things, some of which do not concern you, but mostly I am Phryne Fisher.' The nice men at P&O are worried. A su...
Queen of the Flowers (2015)
1928 St Kilda, brave fashionable Phryne Fisher has handmaidens for the Queen of the Flowers parade. Rose 13 runs away and is caught, then so is Phryne's adopted daughter Ruth, seeking her long-lost father. The circus brings old pal Dulcie with three elephants. Fiddler James Murray, lover from Phr...
Urn Burial (2007)
Ah Phryne Fisher, you just keep seducing me more with every book. (Uh oh. Now the next one will be a clinker... What was I thinking?)Actually, I thought this one was going to be a clinker for the first few chapters: Phryne starts out totally bitchy and not at all her inwardly snarky, outwardly co...
Away With the Fairies (2006)
Away with the fairies is a British saying, meaning that a person is a little bit mad, distracted, or in a dreamworld.Miss Fisher is all of things at the start of this novel. Her lover, Lin Chung has been sent back to China on a silk buying trip and hasn’t been in contact for a while. She is more ...
Blood and Circuses (2007)
Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Alan Lee from the carnival. Alan and his friends want her to investigate strange happenings at Farrel...
Murder on the Ballarat Train (2006)
When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects is to have to use her trusty Beretta .32 to save...
Murder in Montparnasse (2006)
Alongside the synopsis given by Goodreads above, there is also a second case involving the disappearance of a wealthy young woman, Elizabeth Chambers, who has just returned from Paris. Her intended fiancé, M’sieur Anatole, asks Phryne to investigate and she discovers that Elizabeth's father, raci...
Flying Too High (2015)
Oh, Phyrne, how much do I love you? A lot. From your unabashed sexual prowling to a decor sense that includes nude paintings of yourself, to the consideration that causes you to buy pretty things for your maid, you are a fine person.It turns out that you also solve mysteries, understand (but disl...
Ruddy Gore (2006)
On her way to the theatre, Phryne and her friend Bunji rescue an old Chinese woman from some thugs. In thanks, the woman and her son take her to their home for a reviving tot of cognac and a quick clean of their clothes. Phryne is immaculate, as always, but Bunji went all in and tore her stocking...
The Castlemaine Murders (2006)
Greenwood brings several threads to this story of murder, greed and mayhem, and weaves them together in a jazz pattern. Phryne's sister Beth arrives from England all unexplained, and so abrasive and obnoxious that Phryne hardly recognises her. She leaps at the post and refuses to explain what's w...
Death at Victoria Dock (2006)
Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. When she alights she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in her arms, and all over her silk shirt. Enraged by the loss ...
The Green Mill Murder (2007)
Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things --dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she's wearing a sparkling lobelia-coloured georgette dress. Nothing can flap the unflappable P...
Cocaine Blues (2007)
I first heard of Kerry Greenwood a few years ago - her series of mystery books focusing on Phryne Fisher was presented amongst various cozy mysteries, this kind of mystery which prohibits swear words, sex or violence. I was then between two minds - on the one hand, it seemed really I wasn't the ...
Death Before Wicket (1999)
We arrived on Miss Fisher’s doorstep in a “bass-akward” kind of manner: first by the television series from Australian Broadcasting being “recommended” by the Affinity Engine in Netflix, and then discovering that there is a whole shelf of books following the Honorable Phryne Fisher through her ca...
Murder in the Dark (2015)
It's Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they caused a sensation. Phryne is in two minds about going when she ...
Murder and Mendelssohn (2013)
The Hon. Phryne Fisher, even after 20 novels, remains true to herself in this latest mystery in which she even joins a chorus to sing Mendelssohn’s Elijah, exhibiting yet another talent to her apparently unlimited repertoire. The reason she undertakes the task is because not one but two conducto...
murder and mendelson (2013)
This is the 20th book in the Phryne Fisher Mystery series. It is 1929 in Australia and Phryne is asked to help solve the murder of a conductor. She agrees and becomes a member of the choir. While doing that she also helps an old friend from WWI become more alive in the land of the living. Lots of...
Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008)
Over all the novel was rather good. [Hopefully no spoilers]LIN CHUNG - First off, I was extremely glad that Lin Chung made a reappearance. Like Phryne I've grown fond of the china man and was sorely disappointing in his less than prominent appearance in the last few books. He does make a grand [a...
Dead Man's Chest (2010)
Dead Man’s Chest is the 18th book in the Phryne Fisher series by popular Australian author, Kerry Greenwood. It is January, and Phryne has decided to take her family to Queenscliff on holiday while her bathroom is renovated. But their arrival at the beachside house borrowed from Mr Thomas, an ant...