Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood

Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood

While memories of the Titanic linger among the ship's passengers, readers are treated to descriptions of sumptuous meals and snippets of Maori lore, along with a tantalizing mystery. Those who long to revel in a glamorous if imperfect past will be satisfied. --Publishers Weekly

The nice men at P&O are worried. A succession of jewelry thefts from the first-class passengers is hardly the best advertisement for their cruises. Especially when it is likely that a passenger is the thief.

Phryne Fisher, with her Lulu bob, green eyes, cupid's bow lips, and sense of the ends justifying the means, is just the person to mingle seamlessly with the upper classes and take on a case of theft on the high seas--or at least on the S.S. Hinemoa--on a luxury cruise to New Zealand. She is carrying the Great Queen of Sapphires, the Maharani, as bait.

There are shipboard romances, champagne cocktails, erotic photographers, jealous swains, mickey finns, jazz musicians, blackmail, and attempted murder, all before the thieves find out--as have countless love-smitten men before them--that where the glamorous and intelligent Phryne is concerned, resistance is futile.

Kerry Greenwood has written almost 40 novels and six nonfiction works. Greenwood has garnered numerous awards, including the Crime Writers' Association of Australia's Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award. She works for the Legal Aid Commission as an advocate in Magistrates' Courts when she is not writing. She isn't married, doesn't have any children, and lives with a Wizard.