Kerry Greenwood – Cannonball Read 17

Not as fluffy as the tv show but still a fun ride

Cocaine Blue by Kerry Greenwood

January 21, 2021 by pixifer 2 Comments

Needing some light entertainment, I decided to rewatch Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. It’s a delightful show and the rewatch made me curious about the books. Phryne, carrying the cocktail, decanted it unobtrusively into a potted palm against which she had no personal grudge, and hoped that it would not give her away by dying too rapidly. Content warning: the book, and my review, mention sexual assault. Cocaine Blues is the first book in the series. Miss Phryne Fisher is a wealthy socialite in 1920s England. […]

Too many ingredients

The Spotted Dog by Kerry Greenwood

November 10, 2020 by Merryn Leave a Comment

The Spotted Dog is the seventh instalment of Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman series. The professional baker/amateur sleuth, her private detective boyfriend, and growing collection of quirky friends and neighbours unravel a knot of mysteries. A kidnapped dog. A series of burglaries. Ransomware. A mysterious mute woman. Is it all connected? Between the morning baking, napping with her cat Horatio, and lustful encounters with the tall, dark and handsome Daniel, Corinna checks in on the other inhabitants of her Roman style apartment building and her fellow […]

Okay Second Book in Miss Fisher’s Murder Series

March 10, 2017 by Classic Leave a Comment

I think this book is firmly a three star read. We get introduced to Mr. Butler, though in the book series he has a wife. We have Phryne once again being led by her libido. At least she has good deductive reasoning though. Though I will say that whole last act was unnecessary with Phryne and I found myself bored senseless reading about her clothes and how much food she had eaten. She also makes an agreement with one of the culprits in this book […]

Putting the “lady” into lady detective

May 27, 2014 by drmllz Leave a Comment

The Hon. Phryne Fisher swaggers through the social scene of 1920s Melbourne, tossing cocktails down her throat and good looking young men into bed with equal facility. Melbourne in the 1920s is an uneasy mixture of glamour and poverty; Phryne, with her title, her unlimited reserves of funds and seductive sang-froid, as well as her street-smarts (and street-fighting skills) and connections, works as a private detective for the kicks rather than the cash, and as something to do between shopping for haute-couture and befriending the helpless and downtrodden. […]

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