Corinna Chapman is living her dream. She's left the buttoned-down world of accounting behind-along with a less-than-lovable husband-to open a bakery in downtown Melbourne. The neighborhood could be nicer-performing CPR on an unconscious junkie is no way for a baker to start her morning-but the neighbors are something else again. Corinna's bakery, Earthly Delights, is on the ground floor of a particularly eclectic apartment building, whose occupants promise to make life interesting. A mysterious moralist has taken offense at the building's professional dominatrix; poisoned pen letters find their way to all residents; suddenly more heroin addicts seem to overdosing than usual; and then there are the vampires. Someone's got to get to the bottom of it all, and it might as well be Corinna.

Earthly Delights is the first in a delicious new series by the award-winning author of the Phryne Fisher mysteries. A cozy, quirky, unconventional antipodean mystery.