I caught Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries when it was still on Netflix, and enjoyed the hell out of it. I’ve been sitting on this book for a while. Definitely wish I’d read it earlier.
I don’t want to say that the series was sanitized for television, exactly, because it did try to deal with mature themes. But after reading this book, I’m a little excited to read more, because they definitely toned things down for tv. Phryne’s come back to Australia because a family friend has asked her to check on their daughter. Once she gets there, she runs into cocaine – lots of it. Seems that there’s a new King in town, and Phryne also decides to get to the bottom of that.
The collection of side characters has begun – The doctor, Bert and Cec are there. And Dot! I loved Dot in the show, but this Dot has a little more of an edge to her, and I’m appreciating that. There’s also far less Inspector Robinson. I’m curious to see if that’s a series thing, and some enterprising show writer saw the potential there, or if that does build up over time in the books as well. I’m ok either way.