Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood signing books at the launch of Forbidden Fruit
Born Kerry Greenwood
17 June 1954
Melbourne
Occupation Writer, locum solicitor
Language English
Nationality Australian
Genres Crime, historical, science-fiction
Notable work(s) Phryne Fisher series
Notable award(s) Multiple, see below
Partner(s) Registered wizard
Children None

Kerry Greenwood (born 17 June 1954 in Footscray, Victoria[1]) is a solicitor from Melbourne, Australia. She is also the author of many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, and children's stories, as well as plays. She is unmarried but lives with a "registered wizard."

Contents

Awards and nominations

Books

Phryne Fisher historical mysteries

  1. Cocaine Blues (1989) aka Death by Misadventure[2]
  2. Flying Too High (1990)
  3. Murder on the Ballarat Train (1991)
  4. Death at Victoria Dock (1992)
  5. The Green Mill Murder (1993)
  6. Blood And Circuses (1994)
  7. Ruddy Gore (1995)
  8. Urn Burial (1996)
  9. Raisins and Almonds (1997)
  10. Death Before Wicket (1999)
  11. Away With the Fairies (2001)
  12. Murder in Montparnasse (2002)
  13. The Castlemaine Murders (2003)
  14. Queen of the Flowers (2004)
  15. Death By Water (2005)
  16. Murder in the Dark (2006)
  17. Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008)
  18. Dead Man's Chest (2010)
  • The Phryne Fisher Mysteries: Cocaine Blues / Flying Too High (omnibus) (2004)
  • A Question of Death (short story collection) (2008)

Corinna Chapman mysteries

  1. Earthly Delights (2004)
  2. Heavenly Pleasures (2005)
  3. Devil's Food (2006)
  4. Trick or Treat (2007)
  5. Forbidden Fruit (2009)
  6. Cooking the Books (2011)

Delphic Women

Spinouts (with Michael Pryor and Catherine Randle)

Stormbringer

The Broken Wheel, Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral are prequels to the Stormbringer trilogy. Characters in Stormbringer refer to events in those books, but are otherwise independent.

Novels

  • The Wandering Icon (1992)
  • The Childstone Cycle (1994)
  • Quest (1996)
  • The Broken Wheel (1996)
  • Whaleroad (1996)
  • Cave Rats (1997)
  • Feral (1998)
  • Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral published in one volume in 2002

Collections

Anthologies edited

Short fiction

"Jetsam" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)

Non-fiction

TV/Film

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries is currently filming in and around Melbourne until December 2011, with screening scheduled for ABC1 in 2012.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ "Kerry Greenwood". Austlit. http://www.austlit.edu.au/common/samples/Greenwood.html. Retrieved 2008-06-15. 
  2. ^ Kerry Greenwood at Fantastic Fiction
  3. ^ http://www.everycloudproductions.com.au/pictures/phryne-fisher/p/27

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