Kerry Greenwood Books in Order

Phryne’s final case takes her to Bendigo, where a deacon is dramatically stabbed during a church service in what seems like a locked room crime. As she unpicks small town secrets and loyalties, the investigation becomes a bittersweet farewell to a beloved heroine.

A later collection of Phryne Fisher short stories, this book gathers new and revised tales that show the Honourable Miss Fisher tackling smaller puzzles between the novels. It is a chance to see favourite characters in quick, sparkling cases and domestic interludes.

In this later Phryne Fisher novel, a trip to the working waterfront suburb of Williamstown lands Phryne in the middle of dockside tensions, murky politics, and a suspicious death near the harbour. Wharf labourers, shipowners, and shadowy agitators all have something to hide.

Phryne, Dot, and the girls escape to the spa town of Daylesford, only to find a retreat for shell shocked soldiers shadowed by a string of drowned men. Rural politics, secretive locals, and the scars of war complicate a case far from Melbourne’s familiar streets.

When a beloved pub dog is kidnapped during a break in, Corinna and Daniel are drawn into the worries of an Irish landlord and a traumatised refugee family. Missing animals, smuggling rumours, and the kindness of the Insula’s residents all play a part in this gentle mystery.

Bringing myth to the foreground, *Mytherotica* reshapes classical and other legendary tales into erotic romances between men. Heroes, gods, and monsters gain fresh inner lives as Greenwood centres desire, consent, and playfulness inside stories that once ended only in tragedy.

This second collection continues the Adventures In Love & Time, with stories of adventurous men falling in love across eras from Troy and other legendary landscapes to almost modern times. Expect danger, humour, explicit encounters, and dependable happy ever afters.

The first Adventures In Love & Time volume offers a suite of male male love stories set from ancient Egypt and Greece to distant futures. Each tale mixes rich historical or speculative detail with explicit, affectionate romance and an insistence on emotionally satisfying endings.

Two linked novellas blend myth, fantasy, and desire, following characters whose lives brush against gods, strange seas, and the shifting boundaries of gender and identity. Both stories ask what people will give up, or become, for love and a chance at freedom.

A choir preparing Mendelssohn’s *Elijah* becomes a murder scene when its conductor is found dead. Phryne navigates feuding musicians, espionage hangovers from the Great War, and an old flame from intelligence days, while the music itself provides both solace and unsettling clues.

Told largely through diary like entries, this novel follows young Evan as he leaves home, joins the army, and experiences the Gallipoli campaign firsthand. Mud, fear, boredom, and sudden loss force him to rethink heroism and what, if anything, can be carried home.

When a young reporter disappears while investigating missing girls from a reformatory, Phryne follows the trail into brutal Magdalene style institutions, brothels, and shipping lanes. The case exposes hypocrisy around so called fallen women and tests her sense of justice to the limit.

Greenwood revisits the baffling 1948 case of the unidentified man found dead on Adelaide’s Somerton Beach. Blending detective work, social history, and sceptical humour, she sifts theories about spies, poison, and romance while exploring why this cold case still grips Australia.

Temporarily lured from her bakery to work as a consultant on a chaotic cooking show, Corinna finds diva chefs, toxic egos, and quiet sabotage in the studio kitchen. Back at the Insula, financial trouble brews, and she must keep both sets of books from going up in flames.

Set in Egypt’s 18th Dynasty, this historical novel follows royal scribe Ptah hotep and princess turned priestess Mutnodjme as Akhenaten’s religious revolution plunges the country into famine and unrest. Politics, passion, and shifting loyalties decide whether the Black Land survives.

A seaside holiday in Queenscliff is spoiled when Phryne arrives to find the hired house without servants and strange clues left behind. Rumours of rum runners, a missing butler, and film folk in town lead to a sun soaked mystery with pirates, painters, and poison.

In a blistering Melbourne heatwave, Corinna is asked to find a missing father who has vanished with a young pregnant woman. The search leads through refugee communities, fringe religious groups, and simmering family tensions, while the city swelters and tempers fray.

Two cases collide when Phryne probes the apparent suicide of a young antiques dealer and searches for an illegitimate heir to a dead man’s fortune. Bohemian artists, spiritualist circles, and family shame tug her between St Kilda beach and the city’s drawing rooms.

A franchised bakery opens near Earthly Delights, undercutting prices and maybe doing more than honest competition. As Halloween approaches, Corinna faces vandalism, pagan neighbours preparing a festival, and a rash of unsettling tricks that may hide something much nastier than business rivalry.

An illustrated treasury for fans of Phryne Fisher, this collection gathers short stories, vignettes, and ephemera about the Honourable Miss Fisher. It offers bite sized mysteries, character sketches, recipes, fashion notes, and glimpses of cases that never became full novels.

After destroying the Lightning Nest, Bran and his companions return to the University to find it eerily deserted and themselves trapped inside. Hunted by an entity called Emmanuel that invades their thoughts, they must defend their sanity and humanity in a tightening mental siege.

Invited to a decadent Christmas house party thrown by eccentric twins, Phryne finds threatening notes, cruel pranks, and a missing guest. Snow, secrets, and a labyrinthine country estate make for an atmospheric investigation into obsession, inheritance, and dangerous games.

Restless back at the University, Bran’s team is sent to investigate an enemy using lightning as a weapon. Their quest to find and disable the mysterious Lightning Nest takes them across a scarred landscape and forces each of them to confront fear, loyalty, and unexpected power.

Corinna loathes fad diets, so a new cult pushing starvation bread and self denial already irritates her. When its followers start falling ill and two shop assistants are poisoned, she digs into dodgy health claims, missing parents, and the comforts of real butter and cake.

Ten years after a cataclysm, Bran leads a small, gifted team from the University to track down former students sold as slaves. Their journey to Rat’s Town uncovers the Stormbringer, a lightning calling weapon, and forces them to face the psychic cost of their own abilities.

A young traveller heads to the Victorian goldfields city of Ballarat, hoping for fortune but finding overcrowded diggings, injustice, and rising unrest. Through new friendships and hard lessons, the journey becomes a coming of age amid the tensions of a colony on the edge of revolt.

When someone tampers with the exquisite chocolates at the shop next to Earthly Delights, Corinna worries for both her neighbour’s business and her own waistline. Sabotage, obsession, and a series of nasty pranks force her to juggle romance with Daniel and a very sticky mystery.

Posing as a wealthy passenger on a luxury liner, Phryne is asked to catch a jewel thief targeting a particular family. A suspicious death at sea turns theft into murder, and she must probe behind elegant facades before the ship reaches port and the killer can vanish.

A young protagonist sets out on a gruelling journey across the Australian landscape, confronting harsh weather, fraught relationships, and the legacy of past injustice. The trek becomes a test of endurance, courage, and what it means to stand by your companions.

As Queen of the Flowers for a seaside festival, Phryne is meant to polish a group of wayward debutantes. When one girl vanishes and another turns up dead, the case entangles circus folk, brothel owners, and Phryne’s own adopted daughter’s uncertain family history.

Continuing the project of the first anthology, *On Murder 2* presents more Australian true crime pieces on murder and other serious offences. Greenwood’s selections and commentary highlight changing legal practices, social attitudes, and the ways crime stories shape public memory.

This first *On Murder* volume gathers classic and lesser known Australian true crime writings about homicide, edited and introduced by Greenwood. Case reports, essays, and period journalism reveal how real murders have been sensationalised, moralised, and occasionally understood.

Having swapped accountancy and a bad marriage for baking, Corinna Chapman runs the Earthly Delights bakery in a Roman style Melbourne apartment block. Anonymous hate mail, overdosed addicts, and a handsome stranger on the soup run soon pull her into her first reluctant investigation.

A family outing to Luna Park’s Ghost Train ends with a mummified, bullet riddled corpse falling at Phryne’s feet. The trail leads to the goldfields town of Castlemaine, old Chinese clan rivalries, and lost gold, while unknown enemies try hard to shut her investigation down.

Written for younger readers, this fast paced thriller throws a small group of teenagers into peril when they stray into a restricted area and stumble across a crime that powerful adults will do anything to keep hidden, forcing them to decide who they can trust.

On work experience at the zoo, Penelope Thanatopoulos is horrified when classmate Kevin is stabbed and dumped in the seal pool, and the evidence points to unpopular Ben. Armed with stubbornness, a sharp mind, and her grandmother’s help, she sets out to find the real attacker.

Years after seven Australian soldiers witnessed a suspicious death in Paris, two have died in apparent accidents. When Bert and Cec fear they are next, Phryne revisits her own memories of wartime Montparnasse while juggling trouble at home with Lin Chung’s arranged marriage.

A famous illustrator of fairy stories dies after receiving threatening letters, and Phryne takes a job at a women’s magazine to investigate. Office rivalries, poisoned tea, and attacks connected to Lin Chung’s family turn a whimsical case into something far more dangerous.

A collaborative volume about visitors from beyond Earth, this book presents accessible science fiction tales and ideas for younger readers, exploring how people might react when aliens arrive, whether as conquerors, neighbours, or something stranger and harder to define.

Planning only cricket and parties in Sydney, Phryne instead ends up searching for Dot’s missing sister and exonerating a scholarship student accused of stealing exam papers. University intrigue, black magic, and a sinister cult lurk behind academic respectability.

When a young man is found poisoned in a Jewish bookshop at the Eastern Market, Phryne is drawn into Yiddish politics, alchemy experiments, and community tensions. Clearing the shop owner’s niece means untangling secrets baked into songs, recipes, and old grudges.

As a priestess of Hekate and princess of Colchis, Medea guards the Golden Fleece until Jason arrives with a ship full of heroes. Greenwood lets Medea narrate her own story of love, betrayal, exile, and grief, challenging the old tale that casts her only as a child killer.

Living in a city’s sewers, empathic boy Tehan is rescued by Travellers and drawn into a movement led by Prophet Sarah. When an ominous Voice threatens to erase everything the Children of the Broken Wheel have built, Tehan races to find the child who might stop it.

Fourteen year old telepath Alain Beastfriend is recruited to help rescue an allied dolphin and confront a looming threat known as the Great Beast. His journey along the dangerous Whaleroad tests his gifts and may decide the fate of the last free coastal stronghold.

On holiday at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in Victoria’s high country, Phryne finds death threats, lethal traps, and a parlour maid strangled in a locked room. Strange funerary urns, an eccentric swagman, and family resentments complicate a classic country house mystery.

A non fiction exploration of women who kill, this book looks at real Australian cases and asks what drives ordinary seeming women to violence. Greenwood blends legal insight and feminist analysis to question easy assumptions about monstrosity, madness, and self defence.

After an unspecified disaster shatters civilisation, Sarah grows up among machine hating zealots called Breakers. When she joins travelling traders, she discovers other ways of living and must decide whether to help stop a second catastrophe even if it means betraying her own people.

Written for younger readers, this fantasy adventure follows an ordinary seeming teenager drawn into a dangerous journey through unfamiliar lands. Along the way they grapple with shifting alliances, looming threats, and the realisation that courage often means choosing compassion.

In this third Delphic Women novel, Electra grows up in a cursed royal house where murder, sacrifice, and betrayal are family history. As pressure mounts on her brother Orestes to avenge their father, she must weigh duty, rage, and the possibility of breaking the cycle at terrible cost.

A gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s *Ruddigore* is interrupted when an actor dies onstage and a theatre ghost seems to stalk the cast. Phryne’s inquiries lead backstage, into Chinatown, and through the city’s opium trade, with charming Lin Chung at her side.

Retelling the fall of Troy from Cassandra’s point of view, this novel pairs the cursed prophetess of Apollo with healer Diomenes. As gods wager and armies gather, the two become pawns and lovers, trying to salvage truth and compassion from a war everyone insists must happen.

This standalone fantasy novel follows a young protagonist whose encounter with a mysterious stone pulls them into a world of magic, prophecy, and political struggle, forcing hard choices about loyalty, power, and what growing up will really cost.

Restless and bored, Phryne agrees to go undercover at Farrell’s Circus, where sabotage, animal deaths, and a sideshow worker’s murder threaten the show. Life under the big top stirs old memories as she juggles circus loyalties and a grim investigation.

A dance marathon at Melbourne’s fashionable Green Mill ends when a competitor drops dead at Phryne’s feet and her squeamish partner disappears. Tracking the missing man leads her from smoky jazz clubs to remote mountain country and long buried war trauma.

Penelope and Benny, first seen in *The Three-Pronged Dagger*, are back on the case when a treasured icon of Saint Dionysus vanishes from their local Greek church. Cemetery prowlers, family secrets, and questions of faith all lie behind the seemingly simple theft.

Driving home past the docks, Phryne’s windscreen is shattered by gunfire and a young Latvian man dies in her arms. Her hunt for his killer pulls her into anarchist politics, bank robbers, and a missing schoolgirl, with danger on both waterfront and home front.

A country train trip turns deadly when chloroform knocks out the passengers and an elderly woman vanishes. Phryne, Dot, and an amnesiac girl piece together a case involving family greed, abuse, and a murder disguised as simple misadventure.

In 1920s Melbourne, Phryne is hired to prevent a hot tempered aviator from killing his father over a business feud, then must solve the father’s murder and a child’s kidnapping, using both her flying skills and her talent for reading people.

Introduced here under its UK title, this first Phryne Fisher novel sends the newly rich, sharply observant flapper back to Melbourne to look into a suspected poisoning and a cocaine ring, uncovering abortionists, corrupt cops, and high society scandals.

Teenage Sasha lives in a university town seized by shaven headed student rebels, but soon discovers a shadowy Management really holds power. To bring them down he must win allies in religious communities and resistance cells and uncover which friend is betraying them all.