Phryne Fisher must save the attendants of 1928's most stylish party from murder in this Australian caper.

"Phryne Fisher is bored. Life has become 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 her door. Alan Lee and his friends want her to investigate strange happenings at Farrell's Circus, where animals have been poisoned and ropes sabotaged. Mr. Christopher has been found with his throat cut in Mrs. Witherspoon's irreproachable boarding house, and Miss Parkes...

Lost and alone after relocating to Melbourne, brilliant Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is assigned to a hostile partner before investigating two seemingly unrelated murders--a homeless man and a high-profile movie star.

When St. Kilda has its first Flower Festival, the Honourable Phryne Fisher becomes the honorary Queen of the Flowers. But when one of her flower maidens and her adopted daughter Ruth both go missing, Phryne puts aside her duties as queen and takes up her duties as investigator.

Sita 'Squishy' Taylor is a cheeky, sneaky 11-year-old who lives with her dad and step-family in a very crowded apartment. Luckily for Squishy, their building is huge - and there's always plenty of mysteries to investigate! Like... 1. How can tunnels be both exciting and scary? 2. How do dogs always know who the bad guys are? 3. Why are pinkie-swears so important? 4. Who's storing toxic waste under the park?

If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well, particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a malnourished body, Corinna is very disturbed indeed. On top of that, her hippie mother, Starshine,...

While trying to keep her bakery afloat amidst business loss to a recently opened discount bakery, Corinna Chapman tries to uncover reasons for her boyfriend's unexplained disappearances and the machinations of his ex, who's moved into his house and who she suspects is up to something.

"The young detectives think Alan Auhl is washed up, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way--and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick--his daughters are still convinced he was murdered; the coroner is not so sure. Or the skeleton...

"""Lose all thought of New Year's diets, you who enter Australian author Greenwood's delectable second Corinna Chapman cozy."" —Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewCorinna Chapman wakes at four every morning to make bread. She's happy with her life. The residents of her little Melbourne community finally caught the rotten man sending those ""scarlet woman"" letters. The former addict she rescued from her alleyway, Jason, is shaping into a good apprentice....

"After more than a decade of happy marriage, things are going well for Don and Rosie--until a phone call throws their world off balance. Their son, eleven-year-old Hudson, has always been a smart kid. But now his teachers say he's having trouble socially. They're suggesting an autism assessment. Don's methodical approach helped him find his perfect match in Rosie ('the world's most incompatible woman'). And he has spent a lifetime trying to fit in--so...