Kerry Greenwood

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  • Bibliography:
    53 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1991
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Corinna Chapman Mystery

1 - Earthly Delights (Jun-2007)
2 - Heavenly Pleasures (Jan-2005)
3 - Devil's Food (Jan-2006)
4 - Trick or Treat (Oct-2009)
5 - Forbidden Fruit (Jun-2010)
6 - Cooking the Books (Mar-2012)
7 - The Spotted Dog (Jul-2020)

A Delphic Women Mystery

Medea (Jun-2013)
Electra (Nov-2013)

A Phryne Fisher Mystery

1 - Death by Misadventure // Cocaine Blues (Jun-1991)
2 - Flying Too High (Jul-1992)
3 - Murder on the Ballarat Train (Sep-1993)
4 - Death at Victoria Dock (Jan-2007)
5 - The Green Mill Murder (Apr-2007)
6 - Blood and Circuses (Jul-2007)
7 - Ruddy Gore (Jun-2005)
8 - Urn Burial (Dec-2005)
9 - Raisins and Almonds (Aug-1999)
10 - Death Before Wicket (Jan-1999)
11 - Away With the Fairies (Jan-2005)
12 - Murder in Montparnasse (Jun-2004)
13 - The Castlemaine Murders (Sep-2004)
14 - Queen of the Flowers (Jun-2004)
15 - Death by Water (Jun-2005)
16 - Murder in the Dark (Sep-2006)
17 - Murder on a Midsummer Night (Jul-2009)
18 - Dead Man's Chest (Nov-2010)
19 - Unnatural Habits (Jan-2013)
20 - Murder and Mendelssohn (May-2014)
21 - Death in Daylesford (Jun-2021)
22 - Murder in Williamstown (Nov-2023)

Stormbringer

1 - The Rat and the Raven (Sep-2012)
2 - Lightning Nest (Sep-2012)
3 - Ravens Rising (Sep-2012)

Book List in Order: 53 titles

  • Death by Misadventure // Cocaine Blues

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 1

    The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher -- she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions -- is rapidly tiring of the ted...

  • Flying Too High

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 2

    Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight ought to be enough excitement for most people, but not Phryne Fisher, amateur detective, woman of mystery, as delectable as the finest chocolate and as sharp as razor blades. In this, the sec...

  • Murder on the Ballarat Train

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 3

    When the 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the week, she eschews the excitement of her red Hispano-Suiza racing car for the sedate safety of the train. The last thing she expects i...

  • Whaleroad

  • The Broken Wheel

    After the Three Days disaster stripped the earth with fire, the people who were left formed groups to survive. There were the Travellers, who traded in small goods and stores. There were the medieval role players still carrying on such traditions in ...

  • Come Sable Night

    in Malice Domestic 6

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Death Before Wicket

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 10

    Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university and perhaps go to the Arts Ball with that celebrated young modernist...

  • Raisins and Almonds

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 9

    In investigating the poisoning of a young man in a bookshop at the eastern Market, and the wrongful arrest of one Miss Sylvia Lee, super-sleuth Phryne Fisher is plunged into a word of Jewish politics, alchemy, poison and chicken soup. Stopping only f...

  • Murder in Montparnasse

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 12

    Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead ... under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne's wharfie mates, Bert and Cec, appea...



  • Queen of the Flowers

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 14

    St. Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all part of the town's first Flower Parade. And who should be Queen of the Flowers but the Honourable...

  • The Castlemaine Murders

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 13

    Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth, and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the 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 deli...

  • Away With the Fairies

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 11

    Seductive flapper and brave gal about town, Phryne Fisher, is called in to investigate the mysterious death of a famous author and illustrator. Working undercover in a women's magazine, Phryne's personal life is thrown into chaos when she is summoned...

  • Heavenly Pleasures

    A Corinna Chapman Mystery - 2

    Baker Corinna Chapman is happy with her life. Jason, the former addict she rescued from her alleyway, is shaping into a good apprentice. And her beautiful Israeli lover, Daniel, though away for the last couple of weeks, is as enchanting as ever. Cor...

  • Death by Water

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 15

    The nice men at P&O are worried. A succession of jewelry thefts from the first-class passengers is hardly the best advertisement for their cruises. Especially when it is likely that a passenger is the thief. Phryne Fisher, with her Lulu bob, gree...

  • Ruddy Gore

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 7

    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 ...

  • Urn Burial

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 8

    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 explanati...

  • Devil's Food

    A Corinna Chapman Mystery - 3

    If there's one thing 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 just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. S...

  • Murder in the Dark

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 16

    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 sensatio...

  • Death at Victoria Dock

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 4

    Driving home late one night, Phryne Fisher is surprised when someone shoots out her windscreen. When she alights she finds a pretty young man with an anarchist tattoo dying on the tarmac just outside the dock gates. He bleeds to death in her arms, an...



  • The Green Mill Murder

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 5

    Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things --dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she's wearing a sparkling lobelia-coloured geor...

  • Earthly Delights

    A Corinna Chapman Mystery - 1

    Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. That is until she walked out on the money market and her dismissive and unpleasant husband James, threw aside her briefcase, and doffed her kitten heels forever. Now she is a baker workin...

  • Blood and Circuses

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 6

    Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Alan Lee from the carnival. Alan and his friends want ...

  • Murder on a Midsummer Night

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 17

    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 bea...

  • Trick or Treat

    A Corinna Chapman Mystery - 4

    When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, the gorgeous Daniel's old friend Georgiana Hope has temporarily...

  • Forbidden Fruit

    A Corinna Chapman Mystery - 5

    Corinna Chapman, owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is summer festival. Corinna loathes the festival and the heat. She is a perfect size 2...

  • Dead Man's Chest

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 18

    Phryne Fisher needs a rest. It's summer. She packs up her family and moves to Queenscliff, a quiet watering place on the coast. Where she meets with smugglers, pirate treasure and some very interesting surrealists, including a parrot called Pussykins...

  • Out of the Black Land

    Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams. Ptah-hotep, a young peasant boy studying to be a scribe, wants to li...

  • Journey to Eureka

    There are people in the world who will hurt you because they can and they like it: and there are people who will help you because they can and they like it.It is 1854 - Llew Jones swindles his way on board the Great Britain as it sets sail for Austra...

  • The Long Walk

    What do you do when your mother falls ill and is sent to a rest home, and your father is away working on the Great Ocean Road? How do you survive when the only things you have are the clothes on your back and the promise you made to keep your family ...



  • Feral

    When Sasha investigates the takeover of the town's university by shaven-headed, rebel students, he discovers that the real power lies in the Management - a faceless group with immense power and its own army of guards. Sasha longs to bring down the Ma...

  • Cooking the Books

    A Corinna Chapman Mystery - 6

    Corinna Chapman, talented baker and reluctant investigator, is trying very hard to do nothing at all on her holidays. Her gorgeous Daniel is only intermittently at her side (he's roaming the streets tracking down a multi-thousand dollar corporate the...

  • Lightning Nest

    Stormbringer - 2

    The heroes of THE RAT AND THE RAVEN have returned to the University, but they are restless. They don’t fit in any more. Swart is told dreadful news by his father, and at the same time a petitioner comes on foot from far away, begging the wise peopl...

  • The Rat and the Raven

    Stormbringer - 1

    Ten years after a terrible accident that stripped the earth with laser burns seven kilometres wide and brought an end to most of human civilisation, patches of settlement still survive. One is the University, which maintains a population and a struct...

  • Ravens Rising

    Stormbringer - 3

    After bringing down the Lightning Nest, the heroes of THE RAT AND THE RAVEN have returned to the University, only to find it deserted and the gates locked. Dismas, who can break any lock, opens the outer door and they gain entry, but then they find t...

  • The Three-Pronged Dagger

    Everything pointed to Ben " the three-pronged knife, the scratches on his face. And why was he out and about that dark night?Penelope Thanatopoulos doesn't like Benjamin Thorpe but she is shocked when he is suspected of attacking Kevin Friend at th...

  • Unnatural Habits

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 19

    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, s...

  • Tamam Shud

    In 1948, a man was found dead on an Adelaide, Australia, beach. Well-dressed and unmarked, he had a half-smoked cigarette by his side, but no identity documents. Six decades later, the Somerton Man's identity and murder are still a mystery. From the ...

  • Medea

    A Delphic Women Mystery

    We know Medea killed her children. Or do we? Was she wronged by ancient playwrights and history? Princess Medea protects the sacred grove holding the Golden Fleece. When Jason arrives, determined to acquire both and rule the land, his gentian blu...

  • Evan's Gallipoli

    The gripping story of an incredible journey behind enemy lines - told in diary form. Fourteen-year-old Evan Warrender travels with his father to the Dardenelles, where they intend to provide succour to the Allied soldiers. When they are captured by t...



  • Cassandra

    "The second in Greenwood's Delphic Women series offers a far different premise on a familiar story, crammed with well-researched detail, fascinating characters and erotic scenes." -- Kirkus Reviews STARRED reviewFrom Mount Olympus, Aphrodite, the go...

  • Electra

    A Delphic Women Mystery

    In the third and final volume of the Delphic Women series, Hector is dead, Troy has fallen in ruins; and unknown to the Argives, refugees from the sack are rebuilding their civilization in New Troy. Agamemnon King of Men returns in triumph to Mycenae...

  • Murder and Mendelssohn

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 20

    To the accompaniment of heavenly choirs singing, the fearless Miss Phryne Fisher returns in her 20th adventure with musical score in hand. An orchestral conductor has been found dead and Detective Inspector Jack Robinson needs the delightfully incisi...

  • Cocaine Blues

    From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Cocaine Blues, the first historical mystery featuring the sensual, posh, and intrepid murder detective Phryne Fisher…"Phryne can not get enough of adventure and the reader can not get en...

  • Herotica 1

  • Herotica 2

  • Mytherotica : Tales of Love & Legend

  • Herotica

  • Bound by Mystery

    In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados-Kerry Greenwood with her Phry...

  • The Spotted Dog

    A Corinna Chapman Mystery - 7

    Melbourne's favorite baker is back in her 7th delicious investigation....



  • My Australian Story: Contagion

    As the horrors of the First World War are drawing to a close, a danger has arisen that will kill more people around the world that the Great War did -- an influenza pandemic. Charlotte McKenzie, assisting the doctor next door, find herself expe...

  • Death in Daylesford

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 21

    “The real star” of this British historical mystery “is Phryne with her Jazz Age fashions, devil-may-care attitude, and dry narrative wit” (Booklist).   When a mysterious invitation for a spa vacation arrives for Miss Phryne Fisher from a...

  • Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions: The Ultimate Miss Phryne Fisher Story Collection

    “With Phryne Fisher, the indefatigable Greenwood has invented the character-you-fall-in-love-with genre.” -- The Australian“The 15 1920s-era stories in this welcome collection from Australian author Greenwood will delight fans of Miss Phryne F...

  • Murder in Williamstown

    A Phryne Fisher Mystery - 22

    The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher is up to her elegant eyebrows in mystery once again!Awakening unusually early one morning, Phryne Fisher finds herself with a rare stretch of free time to fill. After dropping her daughters off for their school-spons...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kerry Greenwood has published 53 books.

Kerry Greenwood does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder in Williamstown, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Kerry Greenwood, Death by Misadventure // Cocaine Blues, was published in June 1991.

Yes. Kerry Greenwood has 4 series.
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