2013 book 66

Kerry Greenwood's Unnatural Habits
In the 19th--and most recent--Phryne Fisher mystery, Phryne gets caught up in the story when a young girl reporter is investigating three pregnant girls missing from the Magdalen Laundry--and then the reporter herself is kidnapped. This one is, again, pretty funny--Phryne is weirdly down on the middle class (though the books make it clear that people from all classes are terrible) and has taken to referring to her troop of wards as "minions." The story here takes some pretty ridiculous twists and turns, but it's hard to go wrong with visits to brothels, "gentlemen's clubs," an all-woman fruit-growing commune, plus a rogue nun performing unasked-for vasectomies. B/B+.