Phryne Fisher is 1920's Melbourne's most elegant, determined and outspoken sleuth, on her 20th and most perplexing mystery to date. In this adventure, our unflappable heroine is called upon by Detective Inspector Jack Robinson to aid him in uncovering the flamboyant murderer of a much-disliked orchestral conductor. Or is it murderers ?
In the turbulent political times of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional diary of Karen Reyes, a 10-year-old girl in love with B-movie horror and trashy pulp monster magazines iconography.
Come to conquer her sin of pride at the Convent of the Paraclete, Catherine LeVendeur is a young scholar excited to learn under the convent's fabled abbess, Heloise.
"LET THE WICKED BE ASHAMED, AND LET THEM BE SILENT IN THE GRAVE." This ominous missive is the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer on the eve of his murder.
In the summer of 1914 in rural New Jersey, the lives of Constance Kopp and her sisters take a dramatic turn. Uncommonly tall, disinterested in domestic affairs and shut away from the world by a closely-held family secret, she is hardly a woman to be trifled with until belligerent silk factory owner Henry Kaufman arrives on the scene.
When Nina Borg, Red Cross nurse, bleeding heart and refugee aid worker, gets a frantic call from estranged friend Karin begging her to pick up a package in one of the lockers at Copenhagen train station, she has no idea of the dangerous underworld she's about to be pulled into.
Decades after a shattering attack on her family that left her mother dead and her sister traumatised, New York lawyer Charlotte Quinn returns to her hometown of Pikeville to confront her past demons and reconnect with her father, Rusty.