Away with the Fairies: Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher - dangerous, passionate, kind, clever, and seductive. She drinks cocktails, dances the tango, is the companion of wharfies, and is expert at conducting an elegant dalliance.
It`s the 1920s in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women`s magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues` deceptions.
But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung`s imminent return from a silk-buying expedition to China, she instead receives an unusual summons from Lin Chung`s family followed by a series of mysterious assaults and warnings.