Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood is an Australian author known for crime fiction, historical mystery, strong heroines, and witty social detail. Her books include Cocaine Blues, Murder in Montparnasse, Murder in the Dark, Queen of the Flowers, Blood and Circuses, and Death at Victoria Dock. Greenwood is especially associated with Phryne Fisher, a glamorous and independent detective moving through 1920s Melbourne with intelligence, style, and nerve.

Her mysteries combine pace with pleasure in setting. Clothes, food, politics, class, sexuality, and urban history all help shape the investigations, giving the novels a lively social world beyond the crime itself. Greenwood writes with humor and confidence while keeping danger real enough to matter. Readers interested in historical mysteries, Australian fiction, female detectives, Jazz Age settings, and stylish crime series will find Kerry Greenwood highly enjoyable.