Earthly Delights

Corinna Chapman was once a high profile accountant and banker. One day she walked out on the money market and her unpleasant husband James, threw aside her briefcase, and doffed her kitten heels forever. Now she is a baker working in her own business, Earthly Delights, in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia.Corinna is living in an eccentric building on the Roman model called Insula, with a lot of strange and interesting people. These include a retired professor of classics, Dionysius Monk; a Dutch gardener named Trudi; Mr. and Mrs. Pemberthy and their rotten dog, Traddles; a pair of disgustingly thin, would-be soapie stars Goss and Kylie; and a jobbing witch, Meroe of The Sibyl's Cave.When a junkie falls half dead on Corinna's grate, a gorgeous sabra stalks along her alley telling her that she is beautiful, and she starts receiving threatening letters accusing her of being a scarlet woman, life for Corinna is suddenly livelier....Kerry Greenwood is the author of more than 40 novels and six non-fiction books. Among her many honors, Ms. Greenwood has received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Australia.