Death by Misadventure // Cocaine Blues — Kerry Greenwood

The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher -- she of the green-grey eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions -- is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia.

Almost immediately from the time she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism -- not to mention erotic encounters with the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse -- until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.