Death by Water: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Book 15

Essie Davis stars as the honorable Phryne Fisher in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix. "While memories of the Titanic linger among the ship's passengers, readers are treated to descriptions of sumptuous meals and snippets of Maori lore, along with a tantalizing mystery. Those who long to revel in a glamorous if imperfect past will be satisfied," according to Publishers Weekly.

The nice men at P&O are concerned about a succession of jewelry thefts from first-class passengers, as it is not the best advertisement for their cruises. It is likely that a passenger is the thief, and Phryne Fisher—with her Lulu bob, green eyes, cupid's bow lips, and sense of the ends justifying the means—is the perfect person to seamlessly mingle with the upper classes and take on the case of theft on the high seas, or at least on the S.S. Hinemoa, during a luxury cruise to New Zealand. She is carrying the Great Queen of Sapphires, the Maharani, as bait.

Shipboard romances, champagne cocktails, erotic photographers, jealous swains, mickey finns, jazz musicians, blackmail, and attempted murder ensue, all before the thieves find out—as countless love-smitten men before them have—that resistance is futile when it comes to the glamorous and intelligent Phryne.

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