Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120082 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 175 pages

Customer Reviews

The introduction of a heroine who you can't help but love
Phryne Fisher is brilliant, beautiful, wealthy and down to earth, bored with the diversions of 1920's society and looking for something else to keep her amused. On a whim she takes the offer of going to Melbourne to investigate why the daughter of Colonel and Mrs Harper repeatedly took ill. Phryne sails to Australia where before long she is embroiled in discovering who is behind cocaine rings and illegal abortions while all the while keeping her humour, her sass and her slighly outrageous appreciation of men.

I just adored her and I can't wait to read more. The story is light and the characters are amusing. I couldn't put the book down either - it was just too tempting to find out what Phryne would do next. The author has not tried to drown you in depth or literary weight. What she has done is produced a cracking good read which will leave you smiling and looking for more.

I found the first couple of chapters had been edited a little too severely and didn't have the flow of the rest of the book but it was well worth persisting.

Couldn't put it down
A fantastic mystery the story line was capativating. I couldn't put the book down. A light interesting read. The charecters and settings are well discribed and I felt that I was there; part of the mmystery I am looking forward to reading more books from this series.
Well done MS Greenwood