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

The streaming service Netflix is now offering the show Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, which features Essie Davis in the role of the honorable Phryne Fisher. "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.

P&O, the company providing the cruise, is concerned about the ongoing jewelry thefts among the first-class passengers, as it does not bode well for their reputation. It is suspected that one of the passengers is the thief. Phryne Fisher, with her Lulu bob, green eyes, cupid's bow lips, and belief in the ends justifying the means, is the perfect person to seamlessly mix with the upper classes and take on a case of theft on a luxury cruise to New Zealand aboard the S.S. Hinemoa. She is carrying the Great Queen of Sapphires, the Maharani, as bait.

The story includes shipboard romances, champagne cocktails, erotic photographers, jealous suitors, spiked drinks, jazz musicians, blackmail, and attempted murder, all before the thieves realize, as countless smitten men have before them, that resistance is futile when it comes to the glamorous and intelligent Phryne.

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