Raisins and Almonds (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Bk. 9)

Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with young Simon Abrahams. But Phryne’s contentment at the Jewish Young People’s Society dance is cut short when Simon’s father asks her to investigate the strange death of a devout young student in Miss Sylvia Lee’s East Market bookshop. Miss Lee has been arrested for the murder, but Phryne believes she is a very unlikely killer.

The investigation leads her into the exotic world of refugees, rabbis, kosher dinners, Kadimah, strange alchemical symbols, Yiddish, and chicken soup. Picking her way through the mystery, Phryne soon finds herself at the heart of a situation far graver and more political than she expected—and all for the price of a song…

“In Greenwood’s latest installment of this long-running series, Phryne Fisher, detective, flapper, and bon vivant, … The mysterious strychnine poisoning of scholarly Jewish immigrant Simon Michaels leads to one of the more complex and somber cases in the career of Greenwood’s Australian Jazz Age amateur sleuth Phryne Fisher.” — Publishers Weekly

“Phryne Fisher is always the consummate outsider… In Raisins and Almonds she is even further an outsider, as the investigation of this particular crime requires that Phryne insert herself into Melbourne’s Jewish community …” — Review on ReadingReality.net