Fans of her Phryne Fisher series will be glad that she is doing something new, although I personally hope she continues with the series which made her famous as well. There is a lot packed into this slim volume as you would expect, but whereas Phryne is a woman who solves crimes (so this is always going to be the focus of the stories) the focus of this book is less clear-cut. Essentially, I would say that this is as much about the entertaining characters that inhabit Insula as it is about murders, so it will be interesting to see how the series progresses as to focus. It does need patting together a bit more, as pages go by with information about bread making, Melbourne’s seedier side by night and other matters before any crime is committed. This aside, anybody who can write a cozy about hard drugs and S&M is clearly a writer to be reckoned with, as if us Phryne Fisher fans didn’t already know that.