Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood

Unnatural Habits by Kerry Greenwood

Among Phryne's pleasantly dashing adventures, this one stands out for its emphasis on sexual orientation and institutional coverups. --Kirkus Reviews STARED review

The decidedly raven-haired Miss Phryne Fisher returns to delve deep into the dark side of Melbourne, Australia.

It's 1929, and girls are going missing. Little, pretty golden-haired girls. And they're not just pretty. Three of them are pregnant, poor girls from the harsh confines of the Magdalene Laundry. People are getting nervous.

Polly Kettle, a pushy, self-important girl reporter with ambition and no sense of self preservation, decides to investigate and promptly goes missing herself.

It's time for Phryne and Dot to put a stop to this and find Polly Kettle before something quite irreparable happens to all of the missing girls. It's all piracy and dark cellars, convents and plots, murder and mystery.and Phryne finally finds out if it's true that blondes have more fun.

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.