Лучшие книги Керри Гринвуд

Зеленоглазой аристократке Фрине Фишер, живущей в 20-е годы прошлого века, наскучила однообразная лондонская жизнь с ее бесконечными приемами и зваными ужинами. Она решила, что куда забавней будет попробовать себя в роли первой в Австралии женщины-детектива. Почти сразу же после приезда в Мельбурн Фрина попадает в водоворот приключений: отравленные жены, наркодельцы, коммунисты, подкупленные полицейские… и, конечно же, любовь!

Предупреждение: Книга аппетитная! Рекомендуется читать перед завтраком, обедом и ужином. Если забудете о еде - не обижайтесь. Когда-то Коринна Чапмен была бухгалтером, но это скучно, а выпекать кексы - весело, поэтому она открыла пекарню в центре Мельбурна, чтобы радовать местных жителей вкусными булочками. Коринна и сама как булочка маленькая, пухленькая, круглолицая, да еще с отменным чувством юмора. Все бы хорошо, если бы не наркоманы, которых что-то очень много стало в округе. И слишком много молодых людей умирает от передозировки. Волей-неволей Коринна втягивается в расследование подозрительных смертей. В конце концов, она…

Досточтимая Фрина Фишер планировала погостить несколько дней у своих родственников в Балларате, куда и направилась поездом вместе со своей верной служанкой и компаньонкой Дот. Но не тут-то было. Уже в пути она сталкивается с целой вереницей тайн. К счастью, расследуя дело об убийстве пожилой дамы и участвуя в поимке белых работорговцев, изящная аристократка по-прежнему находит время для любовных утех.

Опасность, тайны и любовь - вот что по душе великолепной Фрине Фишер, даме-детективу из Мельбурна. Во второй книге серии мисс Фишер не только летает на самолетах, выделывая невероятные трюки, но еще спасает похищенного ребенка, успешно расследует убийство богатого владельца летной школы и ловит в свои сети очередного возлюбленного. И делает все это с той же стремительностью и сногсшибательной элегантностью, с какой водит свою красную "Испано-Сюизу".

"Инсула" - большой дом в центре Мельбурна. Здесь живут булочница Коринна Чапмен, колдунья, компьютерные умники, профессор-латинист, содержательница садо-мазохистского клуба и прочие интересные личности. Но вот в "Инсуле" появляются новые жильцы - пожилая элегантная дама и странный мужчина. За новыми жильцами идет настоящая гангстерская охота. А еще кто-то впрыскивает отвратительную начинку в конфеты, которыми торгует соседний шоколадный магазин... "Небесные наслаждения" - вторая книга серии взаХЛЕБных детективов Керри Гринвуд.

The devastating Phryne Fisher is under fire again in her fourth mystery. A very young man with muddied hair, a pierced ear and a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne's arms. But sadly, it's not another scene of glorious seduction - this time it's death. The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, beautifully dressed in loose trousers, a cream silk shirt and a red-fox fur has just had her windscreen shot out inches in front of her divine nose. But worse is the fate of the pale young man lying on the road, his body hit by bullets, who draws his final blood-filled breath with Phryne at his side. Outraged by this brutal slaughter, Phryne promises to find…

Досточтимая Фрина Фишер и не подозревала, что опасность может подстерегать ее даже в модном танцзале. Но один из танцующих падает замертво, и мисс Фишер, даме-детективу из Мельбурна, приходится начинать новое расследование. Думаете, она ограничится посещением свидетелей и родственников убитого? Дудки! Фрина не мыслит жизни без рискованных приключений. Она пролетит на самолете над горами, окажется в австралийском буше и... в объятиях отважного незнакомца.

Одно из интереснейших дел Фрайни Фишер начинается прекрасным летним днем 1928 года. На пороге появляется призрак из прошлого. Точнее – бывший любовник Фрайни. Его зовут Алан Ли, он циркач, и ему очень нужна помощь. Что-то странное и страшное происходит в его преуспевающей труппе: сначала отравили зверей, потом чуть не спровоцировали несчастный случай во время представления. А теперь один из членов труппы, мистер Кристофер, был найден заколотым в своей комнате в местном пансионе. Что еще хуже, в убийстве подозревают ни в чем не повинную бывшую циркачку… Что это – происки конкурентов? Кровавые деяния безумца? Холодный расчет преступника?…

It's Christmas, and Phryne has an invitation to the Last Best party of 1928, a four-day extravaganza being held at Werribee Manor house and grounds by the Golden Twins, Isabella and Gerald Templar. She knew them in Paris, where they caused a sensation. Phryne is in two minds about going when she starts receiving threats. She promptly decides to accept the invitation - after all, no one tells Phryne what to do. At the Manor House, she is accommodated in the Iris room, and at the party meets two polo-playing women, a Goat lady (and goat), a large number of glamorous young men and a very rude child called Tarquin. The acolytes of the golden…

1929: Girls are going missing in Melbourne. Little, pretty golden haired girls. And 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 them. It's all piracy and dark cellars, convents and plots, murder and mystery .... and Phryne finally finds out if it's true that…

Super-sleuth Phryne Fisher steps, like an elegant cat, through this, her ninth adventure.In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the Eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, Phryne Fisher is plunged into a world of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup.Stopping only for a brief, but intensely erotic, dalliance with the beautiful Simon Abrahams Phryne picks her way through the mystery with help from the old faithfuls - Bert, Cec, Dot and Detective Inspector 'Call Me Jack' Robinson. But ultimately it is her stealth and wit which solve the crime - and all for the price of a…

Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder. Ten years later, two are dead...under very suspicious circumstances. Enter the fascinating Phryne Fisher. Phryne's friends Bert and Cec were part of this group of soldiers in 1918. Now they fear for their lives and appeal to her for help. As Phryne delves into the investigation, she remembers being in Montparnasse on that very same day. Phryne has troubles of a different kind at home. Her lover, Lin Chung, is about to be married. And the effect on her own usually peaceful household is disastrous.... "Phryne Fisher [is] an independent,…

Exciting, gorgeous, adventurous and brave. That's Phryne Fisher, returning in her tenth crime mystery novel. Phryne Fisher-dangerous, passionate, kind, clever, and seductive. She drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting an elegant dalliance. It's the 1920s in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions. But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing…

Travelling at high speed in her beloved Hispano-Suiza accompanied by her maid and trusted companion Dot, her two adoptive daughters Jane and Ruth and their dog Molly, The Hon Miss Phryne Fisher is off to Queenscliff. She'd promised everyone a nice holiday by the sea with absolutely no murders, but when they arrive at their rented accommodation that doesn't seem likely at all. An empty house, a gang of teenage louts, a fisherboy saved, and the mystery of a missing butler and his wife seem to lead inexorably towards a hunt for buried treasure by the sea. But what information might the curious Surrealists be able to contribute? Phryne knows to what depths people will sink for greed but with a glass of champagne in one hand and a pearl-handled Beretta in the other, no one is getting past her.

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia’s Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation, and the parlour maid is found strangled to death. What with the reappearance of mysterious funerary urns, a pair of young lovers, an extremely eccentric swagman, an angry outcast heir, and the luscious Lin Chung, Phryne’s attention has definitely been caught. Her search for answers takes her deep into the dungeons of the house and into the limestone Buchan caves. What will she find this time? Kerry Greenwood, winner of the Australian Crime Writers Asso-ciation Lifetime Achievement Award, began her Phryne Fisher series in 1989 with Cocaine Blues. She has written 16 books in this series with no sign yet that Miss Fisher is hanging up her pearl-handled pistol. Ms. Greenwood lives and writes in Australia. www.phrynefisher.com

Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress. She then finds that she has rescued the handsome Lin Chung, and his grandmother, who briefly mistake her for a deity. Denying divinity but accepting cognac, she later continues safely to the theatre where her night is again interrupted by a bizarre death onstage. What links can Phryne find between the ridiculously entertaining plot of Ruddigore, the Chinese community of Little Bourke St., or the actors treading the boards of His Majestys Theatre?

'I must say Jack, I have been in some awful company before - I have dined with torturers and Apaches and strict Plymouth Brethren and politicians - but I never met such vile company as those people. Each in his or her own way, they were frightful.' Melbourne, 1929. The year starts off for glamorous private investigator Phryne Fisher with a rather trying heat wave and more mysteries than you could prod a parasol at. Simultaneously investigating the apparent suicide death of a man on St Kilda beach and trying to find a lost, illegitimate child who could be heir to a wealthy old woman's fortune, Phryne needs all her wits about her, particularly when she has to tangle with a group of thoroughly unpleasant Bright Young Things. But Phryne Fisher is a force of nature, and takes in her elegant stride what might make others quail, including terrifying seances, ghosts, Kif smokers, the threat of human sacrifices, dubious spirit guides and maps to buried pirate treasure...

The utterly delightful Phryne Fisher makes her very welcome appearance as St Kilda's Queen of the Flowers. But when a body washes up on the beach, she must leave the carnival and find the killer. This is the fourteenth seductive installment in the classic Phryne Fisher whodunnit series. With more than a dash of glamour and serious helpings of style, the witty and courageous Phryne Fisher returns. In 1928 St Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Magic shows, marionettes, tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all part of the Flower Parade. And who else should be…

The fabulous Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the perfect place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne's two daughters, Ruth and Jane. But in the dusty dark Ghost Train, amidst the squeals of horror and delight, a mummified bullet-studded corpse falls to the ground in front of them. Phryne Fisher's pleasure trip has definitely become business. Digging into this longstanding mystery takes her to the country town of Castlemaine where it's soon obvious that someone is trying to muzzle her investigations. With unknown threatening assailants on her path, Phryne seems headed…

If there's one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, can't abide, it's people not eating well - particularly when there are delights like her very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a body which is found in a park, dead of malnutrition, Corinna is very disturbed indeed.
But she doesn't only have that to contend with: her hippie mother, Starshine, has turned up out of the blue, hysterical that Sunlight, Corinna's father, has absconded to Melbourne with all their money and a desire for a new young lover; someone is poisoning people with weight loss herbal teas; and then there are odd things happening at the nearby Cafe Vlad Tepes, which attracts a very strange clientele indeed. Altogether, it's a delicious recipe for murder, mayhem and mystery.
The third in the Corinna Chapman series, Devil's Food is another irresistible, criminally entertaining read from the master crime writer, Kerry Greenwood.