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Heavenly Pleasures: A Corinna Chapman Mystery

Heavenly Pleasures: A Corinna Chapman Mystery

by Kerry Greenwood

Baker Corinna Chapman is happy with her life. Jason, the former addict she rescued from her alleyway,, is shaping into a good apprentice. And her beautiful Israeli lover, Daniel, though away for the last couple of weeks, is as enchanting as ever. Corinna has no intention of doing any more investigative work. At least until she bites into what should have been a lovely violet cream gourmet chocolate and instead... (more)

Murder in Montparnasse: A Phryne Fisher Mystery (Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback))

Murder in Montparnasse: A Phryne Fisher Mystery (Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback))

by Kerry Greenwood

Always enticing in divine twenties fashion, Phryne, one of the most exciting and likeable heroines in crime writing today, leads us through a tightly plotted maze of thrilling adventure set in 1920s Australia. 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.... (more)

Ruddy Gore

by Kerry Greenwood

Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. She then finds that she has rescued the handsome Lin Chung, and his grandmother, who briefly mistake her for a deity. Denying divinity but accepting cognac, she later continues safely to the theatre where her night is again... (more)

The Green Mill Murder

by Kerry Greenwood

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 Phryne--especially on a dance floor with so many delectable partners. Nothing except death, that is. The dance... (more)

Away With The Fairies (Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback))

Away With The Fairies (Phryne Fisher Mysteries (Paperback))

by Kerry Greenwood

Searching for the murderer of a famous author, sexy, sassy Phryne goes undercover-and is up to her ears in fashion gossip and office politics.... 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... (more)

Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

Flying Too High (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

by Kerry Greenwood

The second in the classic Phryne Fisher series from Kerry Greenwood, featuring the irresistible heroine Phryne. Whether she’s foiling kidnappers, seducing beautiful young men or simply deciding what to wear for dinner, Phryne handles everything with her inimitable panache and flair. Danger, excitement and love--this is how the glamorous Phryne Fisher is determined to live her life in her second enticing... (more)

Till We Meet Again

by Lesley Pearse

Susan Wright walked into a doctor's surgery and gunned down two members of staff in cold blood, then waited for the police to arrest her. Later that day a lawyer, Beth Powell, is assigned to defend her. Susan won't talk to anyone, even to Beth - until both women realize that twenty-nine years earlier they had been childhood friends. Talking about their troubled families and those happy summers they spent together... (more)

A Lesser Evil

by Lesley Pearse

Children's BachHelen Garner

Children's Bach

by Helen Garner

Hope

by Lesley Pearse

Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mysteries)

by Kerry Greenwood

This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. 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... (more)

My Sister's Keeper

A Novel

by Jodi Picoult

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness. Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her... (more)

Kittyhawk Down

by Garry Disher

"A police procedural . . . featuring a squad of interestingly flawed homicide cops working multiple cases that feature multiple puzzles and a pool of incisively well-drawn murder suspects. . . . First rate."- The New York Times Book Review "Gripping. . . . As the story neatly advances from the viewpoints of characters both major and minor, Disher artfully employs misdirection. . . . Fans of <Peter... (more)

Blood and Circuses: Phryne Fisher Mystery

Blood and Circuses: Phryne Fisher Mystery

by Kerry Greenwood

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 Farrell’s Circus, where animals have been poisoned and ropes sabotaged. Mr. Christopher has been found with his throat cut in... (more)

Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery (Murray Whelan Thrillers)

Nice Try: A Murray Whelan Mystery (Murray Whelan Thrillers)

by Shane Maloney

" Murder is a contact sport . . . Murray Whelan, the wisecracking ace of reluctant detectives, is back on the mean streets of Melbourne, and this time the occasion is the international competition to host the Summer Olympics: Let the crimes begin! When the Lords of Five Rings-the International Olympics Committee-come to town to choose a site for the Summer Games, everyone knows the money will start to fly and... (more)

The Spare Room

by Helen Garner

A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women—one dying, the other called to care for her—from an internationally acclaimed and award-winning author How much of ourselves must we give up to help a friend in need? Helen has little idea what lies ahead—and what strength she must muster—when she offers her spare room to an old friend, Nicola, who has arrived in the city for cancer... (more)

The Summer of Secrets

by Martina Reilly

Riley Jenson Guardian: Book 7

Deadly Desire

by Keri Arthur

Seduction that kills. Pleasure to die for. She just can’t resist . . . Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that’s exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a trail of female corpses used—and discarded—in a bizarre ritual of evil. With pressure mounting to catch one... (more)

A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury

A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury

by Kerry Greenwood

The Honourable Phryne Fisher--she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips, and diamante garters--is the 1920's most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This sparkling collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany--including Phryne's favourite shoes and hats, delicious cocktail recipes and her best tips for discouraging unwated admierers--is a gorgeously collectable treat for all Phryne fans. ... (more)

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