by Kerry Greenwood
Basically Phryne runs away and joins the circus. Ostensibly to help with some friends in the circus who are seeing accidents happen around them but can't see what's happening. She has to learn how to be a member of the circus and finds it a challenge to be away from her luxury. There's a look at ...
bookshelves: autumn-2012, mystery-thriller, tbr-busting-2012, series, cosy, australia, published-1994, period-piece Read on September 15, 2012 Read by................... Stephanie DanielAbr/Unabr................ UnabridgedPosition in Series......6 (1994)Total Runtime.......... 7 hrs 24 mins Synop...
Another excellent adventure with Phryne. It was easy to see from the beginning that certain things would be connected n the book, but it was still a fun romp through a circus.
Read by................... Stephanie DanielAbr/Unabr................ UnabridgedPosition in Series......6 (1994)Total Runtime.......... 7 hrs 24 mins Synopsis: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. ...
It's a good Phryne Fisher. The exposition wedged between an opening that was really good, lots of showing not much telling and the start of the story got a bit long. As always Greenwood has a plethora of fringe characters in her plot. This time it's people working in the circuses. Not always done in...
That was pretty intense.WARNING: Spoilers below.There sure were a lot of touchy subjects in here, weren't they? Not just the racism and bigotry or the racism and bigotry being portrayed as the circus folk's way, or the (thankfully admonished) bigotry of Sgt Grossmith. Not even just the fact that the...
This installment of the Phryne Fisher mysteries takes a more sensationalist turn (yes, even in light of the incest, blackmail, drug-dealing, rape, and child-trafficking in earlier volumes). Hermaphrodites! Dripping pools of blood! Multiple and varied sexual assaults! Raving alcoholics! Bar brawls! G...
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