Murder On a Midsummer Night

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 séances, ghosts, Kif smokers, the threat of human sacrifices, dubious spirit guides and maps to buried pirate treasure...

"Miss Fisher has beauty, brains and oodles of style … a well-constructed novel that enchants, excites, enthrals and entertains." -- Good Reading Magazine
"Greenwood's classy British whodunit, set in Melbourne, Australia, in 1929 once again features the young, irrepressible private eye Phryne Fisher. With the help of her eager coterie of snoops, including down-to-earth housekeeper Dot and Phryne's adopted daughters, they delve into a suicide that could be a homicide and the hunt for the illegitimate heir to a fortune. The superb Stephanie Daniel, who has been down the road with Phryne many times before, shines as the smart, sharp-tongued, but totally likable, sleuth; her no-nonsense housekeeper; and a group of vulgar 'bright young things'. This seventeenth in the series is as crisp, clever, and thoroughly enjoyable as ever." -- AudioFile Magazine

Kerry Greenwood was born in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and, after wandering far and wide, she returned to live there. She has a degree in English and Law from Melbourne University. Kerry has written twenty novels, a number of plays, is an award-winning children's writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. When she is not writing, she works as a locum solicitor for Victorian Legal Aid.Corinna Chapman's Earthly Delights: Stephanie Daniel spent several years acting in theatre, television and film in the UK and Europe and dubbing films into English in Munich, Paris and Rome. In Australia she has recorded countless audiobooks. Her television appearances include Mercury and Something in The Air. Films Stephanie has appeared in include The Castle and in the theatre in her acclaimed portrait of Jane Austen.

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