The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher #5)

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things—cutting the rug at the Green Mill, Melbourne's premier dance hall. In a sparkling lobelia-colored georgette dress, dancing to the stylings of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, nothing can flap the unflappable flapper. Nothing except death, that is.

The dance competition is trailing into its final hours when suddenly, in the middle of "Bye Bye Blackbird," one of her fellow contestants slumps to the ground. No shot was heard, and Phryne, conscious of how narrowly the missile must have missed her own bared shoulder, undertakes to investigate. This leads her into the dark and smokey jazz clubs of Fitzroy, the arms of eloquent strangers, and finally into the the sky, on the trail of a complicated family tragedy of the Great War and the damaged men who served at Gallipoli. In the Australian Alps, she meets a hermit with a dog called Lucky and a wombat living under his bunk… and risks her life on the love between brothers.