By: Kerry Greenwood
Genre: Mystery Woman Sleuth
Poisoned Pen Press
November 1, 2006
On Sale: October 30, 2006
Featuring: Phryne Fisher
245 pages
ISBN: 1590583132
EAN: 9781590583135
Paperback (reprint)
Book Summary
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 learning the ins
and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal
life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin
Chung's imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to
China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin
Chung's family followed by a series of mysterious assaults
and warnings.