Unnatural Habits

''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'' Vogue1929: 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... [she is] 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 ... a well-constructed novel that enchants, excites, enthrals and entertains'' Good Reading Magazine

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