Background
Kerry Greenwood was born on June 17, 1954, in Melbourne, Australia, the daughter of Alan, a wharf laborer, and Jean Greenwood.
100 Geelong Rd, Footscray VIC 3011, Australia
Greenwood attended Geelong Road State School (now Footscray Primary School),
2 River St, Maribyrnong VIC 3032, Australia
Greenwood studied at Maribyrnong College.
Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
Greenwood attended the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Laws degrees in 1979.
100 Geelong Rd, Footscray VIC 3011, Australia
Greenwood attended Geelong Road State School (now Footscray Primary School),
2 River St, Maribyrnong VIC 3032, Australia
Greenwood studied at Maribyrnong College.
Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
Greenwood attended the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Laws degrees in 1979.
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1991
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1995
(In this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood’s De...)
In this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood’s Delphic Women series, Greenwood takes us into Troy as it struggles to rise from the ashes of the Trojan War. But while others have told the story as a struggle of men, Greenwood gives this mythology a compelling and exciting female viewpoint.
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1996
(Medea, Princess of Colchis, is a priestess of Hecate, Thr...)
Medea, Princess of Colchis, is a priestess of Hecate, Three Named, Lady of Phantoms. She is the custodian of the wood in which the Golden Fleece is hung. She alone can tame the giant serpent which guards the grove. And then Jason and his Argonauts come along, and she falls catastrophically in love. She helps him steal the Golden Fleece and sails with him to claim his throne. And that’s when things go wrong… and she must attempt to reclaim her humanity through abandonment, murder, grief, and heavy seas.
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1997
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Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. Now she is a baker working in her own business, Earthly Delights, in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia. Corinna is living in an eccentric building on the Roman model called Insula. She is quite content with her cat, Horatio, and her shop until a junkie falls half dead on her grate, a gorgeous sabra stalks along her alley and tells her that she is beautiful, and she starts receiving threatening letters accusing her of being a scarlet woman. Then it is Goths, lost girls, fraud, late nights, nerds, and beautiful slaves. Life for Corinna has suddenly become interesting. And she still needs to get her bread out in time for the morning rush....
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2004
(Baker Corinna Chapman is happy with her life. Jason, the ...)
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. Corinna has no intention of doing any more investigative work. At least until she bites into what should have been a lovely violet cream gourmet chocolate and instead finds a chili-filled catastrophe. Corinna doesn’t want to see Juliet and Vivienne Lefebvres chocolate shop, Heavenly Pleasures, shut down. And quite frankly, it is just a crime to ruin those gorgeous chocolate confections. Is this tampering part of an elaborate and horrible joke, or is it a warning that worse may yet happen? In the meantime, Daniel has returned bruised and battered from an encounter with a so-called messiah. Is the messiah somehow involved in this chocolate crime? And just who is the mysterious man who has moved into the upper apartment? Heavenly Pleasures is the second installment in Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman series.
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2005
(Ten years after a terrible accident that stripped the ear...)
Ten years after a terrible accident that stripped the earth with laser burns seven kilometers wide and brought an end to most of human civilization, patches of the settlement still survive. One is the University, which maintains a population and a structure and now has time and resources to find out what happened to some of its students, sold as slaves, while the University was ruled by a despot. Bran assembles a group, including a very cautious thief, twin girls, and the strong man Mill the Hill, as well as Swart, a brother of one of the lost slaves. They set out for their first mission by train, for a place now called The Rat's Town, where Bran meets a transmitting empath called Scathe, who joins the group as they go further; first to find the lightning maker, the Stormbringer and then, further still, to return to find that their minds are not their own, and that their very worst nightmares are becoming very real indeed.
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2005
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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 that they are locked in and now not even Dismas can open the doors. Who is Emmanuel and how is it that he seems able to control their thoughts? Locked in the tower, the Ravens must fight to defend everything that is most precious? their very humanity is at risk. Emmanuel wants desperately to become human and needs to overwhelm and inhabit them to ensure his own survival.
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2006
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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 people of the University for help against an enemy who wields lightning as a weapon. So it is time for Bran to gather his group again: the giant Mill the Hill, the dangerous twins Aethelflaed, the cowardly Dismas who can open any lock if he is scared enough, and Bran's beautiful, strange lover Scathe, a transmitting empath. They must find the Lightning Nest ? a Tesla construct, and disable it. Harder things will also be asked of them before the end.
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2006
(If there’s one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraord...)
If there’s one thing that 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 very own, just-baked, freshly buttered sourdough bread to enjoy. So when a strange cult which denies the flesh and eats only famine bread turns up, along with a malnourished body, Corinna is very disturbed indeed.
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2006
(When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just do...)
When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, baker Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, her lover Daniel’s old friend Georgiana Hope has temporarily set up residence in his house. She’s tall, blond, and gorgeous, and it doesn’t take Corinna long to work out that she’s up to something. Daniel is making excuses and Corinna is worried about his absences. But even more worrisome is the strange outbreak of madness that seems to be centered on Lonsdale Street. Can Corinna find her way through a maze of health regulations, missing boyfriends, sinister strangers, fraudulent companies, and back-alley ambushes? Or will the Earthly Delights Bakery be well and truly done?
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2007
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Corinna Chapman, the owner of the bakery Earthly delights, detests Christmas. The shoppers are frantic and the heat oppressive in Melbourne, Australia, where Christmas is a summer festival. Corinna loathes the festival and the heat. She is a perfect size 20 with a genius for baking bread. And muffins. And while dreaming of air-conditioned comfort she finds herself dealing with a rose-addicted donkey named Serena, a maniacal mother with staring eyes, a distracted assistant seeking for the definitive glace cherry recipe, her friend the fearless witch Meroe and the luscious Daniel with whom she would like to spend a lot more time. But Daniel is on the track of two runaways, Brigid and Manny. This Romeo and Juliet romance is not as straightforward as it seems and the pair will go a long way to avoid being found. With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers, and a bunch of singing vegans, Corinna and Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase against the (biological) clock.
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2009
(Corinna Chapman, a talented baker, and reluctant investig...)
Corinna Chapman, a 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 theft). Jason, her baking offsider, has gone off to learn how to surf. And Kylie and Goss are fulfilling their lives’ ambition by auditioning for a soapie. It should be a time of quiet reflection for Corinna but quiet reflection doesn’t seem to suit her – she’s bored. Scenting a whiff of danger, Corinna accepts an offer from a caterer friend to do the baking for the film set of a new soap called ‘Kiss the Bride.’ The soapie in which Kylie and Goss have parts. Twists and turns and complications that could only happen to Corinna ensue involving, bizarrely, nursery rhymes and a tiger called Tabitha. While on the other side of town, a young woman is being unmercifully bullied by her corporate employers – employers who spend a lot of time cooking the books.The 6th in the Corinna Chapman series.
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2011
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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 missing labels from all his clothing to the tiny piece of paper with the words "Tamam Shud" found sewn into the lining of the dead man’s coat, this cold case is brimming with facts that are stranger than fiction. Written by one of Australia's best-known and most loved crime writers, this book uses pieces of the author's own past in an attempt to solve this crime, uncovering a new way of writing about true crime and about herself in the process.
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2012
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2014
lawyer novelist playwright author
Kerry Greenwood was born on June 17, 1954, in Melbourne, Australia, the daughter of Alan, a wharf laborer, and Jean Greenwood.
Greenwood attended Geelong Road State School (now Footscray Primary School), Maribyrnong College, and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Bachelor of Laws degrees in 1979.
Greenwood was admitted to the legal profession on the 1st April 1982, a day which she finds both soothing and significant. Kerry has written twenty novels, a number of plays, including The Troubadours with Stephen D'Arcy, is an award-winning children's writer and has edited and contributed to several anthologies. In 1996 she published a book of essays on female murderers called Things She Loves: Why women Kill.
Greenwood's Phryne Fisher is a fabulously wealthy, single Australian woman living the high life in the late 1920's. Phryne has servants and a beloved red sportscar, her clothing is lavish, and her culinary tastes decidedly haute cuisine. She also craves adventure, a penchant that has led her to work as a private detective.
Cocaine Blues is the first book in the series and was later published in the United States, although not in the order of the originals. It introduces the characters, including Inspector Robinson and others who return throughout the series. This first book also explains how Phryne's previous poverty has resulted in her empathy for those less fortunate. Cocaine and back-alley abortions figure in the cases she investigates in the opener. Phryne appears in Flying Too High as a pilot and as the subject of nude paintings. In Murder on the Ballarat Train, passengers succumb to chloroform, and Phryne comes to their rescue.
Phryne's windshield is shattered by bullets and a young man dies in her arms in Death at Victoria Dock. Anarchists threaten the members of Phryne's household, including her maid and companion, Dot, and Mr. and Mrs. Butler, who manage the household. She meets Peter Smith at a party, and he becomes her lover and aids her in discovering that a bank robbery is being planned to finance a revolution.
Other Greenwood books that have been reprinted include The Green Mill Murder, in which Phryne is investigating the murder of a dance contest participant. In Blood and Circuses, Phryne is asked by her former lover, carnival worker Alan Lee, to investigate incidents occurring at Farrell's Circus.
The plot of Ruddy Gore revolves around a revival of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore. Actors are being poisoned, and company manager Sir Bernard Tarrant asks his friend Phryne to help stop the killings. Urn Burial finds Phryne and her Chinese lover, Lin Chung, taking a holiday, but the racist wife of the innkeeper gives them separate rooms at opposite ends of the building. Someone is leaving funeral urns for Phryne, who has a fling with another man while the mystery unfolds.
In Away with the Fairies, a children's book illustrator is murdered, and in Murder in Montparnasse, Lin Chung is about to be married, while Phryne may be losing her staff. The Castlemaine Murders finds Phryne investigating the mystery of a bullet-riddled mummy.
Raisins and Almonds, first published in 1997 and then in the United States in 2007, features Phryne looking into the death of a young student in a bookshop, where the owner has been arrested for murder. Convinced that Miss Sylvia Lee is an unlikely murderer, Phryne is soon immersed in the Yiddish world (the book's title comes from a Yiddish lullaby) and a political mystery.
Phyrne is looking for the missing sister of her maid Dorothy "Dot" Williams in Death before Wicket, first published in Australia in 1997 and printed in the United States in 2008. Rumor is that Dot's sister ran off with another man, abandoning her children and despot of a husband, but Dot cannot believe that her sister is partying around town and abandoning her children. The novel is set in Sydney, and finds Phyrne not only looking for Dot's sister but also working on who stole copies of tests from a university safe. Along the way, she encounters dabblers in black magic.
Greenwood has also written a variety of other works. Her adult novels Cassandra, Electra, and Medea are treatments of ancient women of Greek fable. For young adults, she has written a loosely related science fiction series, including Whale Road, Cave Rats, and Feral.
Greenwood has worked as an advocate with the Victoria Legal Aid Commission. From her experiences with women inmates she wrote one of her nonfiction titles, The Thing She Loves: Why Women Kill, a study of what motivates women to commit murder.
Corinna Chapman is the central character in a trio of books that begins with Earthly Delights. The title refers to the Melbourne bakery owned by the protagonist who lives in an apartment building populated by an interesting group of people, including a professor, a witch, computer nerds, a lady gardener, and two aspiring actresses/models who help in the bakery. The trouble begins when threatening letters begin arriving at the doors of Corinna and the other women in the building. The threats escalate to spray-painted warnings, the first appearing on the wall of the shop of dominatrix Mistress Dread. Corinna is helped in her investigation by Daniel Cohen, who delivers food to the homeless.
In Heavenly Pleasures, the next book in the series, new neighbors move into the building, which is in danger of being blown up. Where Phryne has a maid and butler, Corinna continues to be helped in the bakery by Goss and Kylie, as well as Jason, a recovering drug addict. The title refers to a shop that is being targeted by someone who is spiking the chocolates.
In her next book in the series, Devil's Food, Greenwood pits Corinna against a cult that denies the way of the flesh, including eating baked goods. When a body turns up dead from malnutrition, Corinna suspects that the cult has something to do with the death. Subplots include the strange Café Vlad Tepes and Corinna's hippie mother showing up after Corinna's father has taken off with all their money in search of young love. In Trick or Treat, Corinna finds that her Earthly Delights bakery is facing stiff competition from a low-cost franchise bakery and from a tall and beautiful blond who is staying with Corinna's boyfriend, Daniel. In the meantime, there is an unusual spurt of people seemingly going mad around the Lonsdale Street area.
(If there’s one thing that Corinna Chapman, baker extraord...)
2006(Ten years after a terrible accident that stripped the ear...)
2005(When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just do...)
2007(In this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood’s De...)
1996(After bringing down the Lightning Nest, the heroes of The...)
2006(Corinna Chapman, a talented baker, and reluctant investig...)
2011(The heroes of The rat and the raven have returned to the ...)
2006(Medea, Princess of Colchis, is a priestess of Hecate, Thr...)
1997(Corinna Chapman, the owner of the bakery Earthly delights...)
2009(In 1948, a man was found dead on an Adelaide, Australia, ...)
2012( Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and ...)
2004(Baker Corinna Chapman is happy with her life. Jason, the ...)
2005Greenwood embroiders very well but cannot knit. She has flown planes and leapt out of them with a parachute in an attempt to cure her fear of heights. For fun, Kerry reads science fiction/fantasy and detective stories.
Greenwood is not married, has no children, and lives with a registered wizard, the mathematician, and author David Greagg.
