Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood

Queen of the Flowers by Kerry Greenwood

Crime strikes close to home in this latest installment.The engaging cast of familiar supporting characters--including Phryne's maid, Dot, and her Chinese lover, Lin Chung--will delight longtime fans. --Publishers Weekly

The circus is in town for St Kilda's first Flower Festival, which includes a parade. And who should be Queen of said Flowers but the Honourable Phryne Fisher? She has dresses to purchase, cinemas to visit, and agreeable cocktails to drink.

However, one of her flower maidens is unstable and has vanished. So Phryne investigates, trudging through the underworld with the help of Bert, Cec, her little beretta, an old flame from Orkney, the owner of the most exclusive brothel in St Kilda, and several elephants.

But when her own adopted daughter Ruth goes missing, Phryne is determined that nothing will stand in the way of her retrieving her lost child.

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.