Unnatural habits (Little, Brown Book Group)

'Greenwood's strength lies in her ability to create characters that are wholly satisfying: the bad guys are bad, and the good guys are great' - Vogue 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 blondes have more fun. Praise for Kerry Greenwood: 'Elegant, fabulously wealthy and sharp as a tack, Phryne sleuths with customary panache... Irresistibly charming' - The Age 'Phryne Fisher is gutsy and adventurous, and endowed with plenty of grey matter' - West Australian 'In a word: delightful' - Herald Sun 'Miss Fisher has beauty, brains and oodles of style...