Medea (58 page)

Her fiction includes detective, crime, fantasy and historical novels for both adults and young adults. She is the author of twenty Phryne Fisher mysteries, set in Melbourne in the 1920s; and six Corinna Chapman crime novels, set in the same city this century. She is always working on the next Phryne or Corinna; and, quite often, on something else as well.

Kerry holds the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award for her crime fiction, and wants another lifetime; and a Davitt Award for her YA crime novel
The Three
Pronged Dagger.

Kerry is not married but lives with an accredited Wizard and two cats, Monsieur and Belladonna, in Melbourne Australia.

In her spare time she stares blankly out of the window and has no idea where she gets her ideas from.

The Delphic Women

trilogy

by Kerry Greenwood

 

 

 

Medea

 

Her name is a byword for infamy; Medea - the vengeful mother who murdered her own children to spite her husband. But things are seldom as they seem - when history is written by men.

For Medea, Princess of Colchis and securer of the Golden Fleece, is also loyal friend to Herakles, strong-spirited adventurer with the Argonauts, and loving wife of the feckless Jason.

This is the strange and sensual story of one of history's most misunderstood women.

 

 

 

Cassandra

 

Cassandra, the Trojan princess cursed with the gift of prophecy, and Diomenes, the Achean with the healing hands, become puppets of the bored Olympian gods. Their passions are thwarted and their gifts rendered useless by a wager between Aphrodite and Apollo.

Will Cassandra and Diomenes then defy the odds and find each other in the last days of doomed magnificent Troy; and if they do, can their love survive the machinations of malicious gods and men?

 

 

 

Electra

 

Forced to flee her home after the shocking murder of her father, King Agamemnon, Electra finds life outside the palace strange indeed.

She is appalled by the casual ways of her foreign companions, especially the scandalous relationship between the Trojan Cassandra and her two men - but she needs them to survive.

Driven by a desire for revenge, Electra's quest soon becomes a journey of self-discovery.

Out of the Black Land

by Kerry Greenwood

 

 

 

Egypt in the 18th Dynasty is peaceful and prosperous under the dual reign of father and son pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the son begins to dream terrifying dreams.

Ptah-hotep, a peasant boy studying to be a scribe, wants to live a simple life in a Nile hut with his lover Kheperren and their dog Wolf, but the young Amenhotep appoints him Great Royal Scribe. Surrounded by envious rivals, how long will Ptah-hotep survive?

Child-princess Mutnodjme sees her beautiful sister Nefertiti married off to the impotent Amenhotep IV. As she must still bear royal children, a shocking plan is devised.

Kheperren, meanwhile, serves as scribe to the daring teenage General Horemheb. But while the shrinking Eyyptian army guards the Land of the Nile from enemies on every border, a far greater menace impends.

For, not content with his own devotion to one god alone, the newly-renamed Akhnaten plans to suppress the worship of all other gods in the Black Land.

His horrified court soon realise that the Pharaoh is not merely deformed, but irretrievably mad; and that the biggest danger to the Empire is in the royal palace itself.

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First published in Australia (as eBook) Clan Destine Press 2011

First published in Australia, Reed Books, 1997

PO Box 121, Bittern

Victoria 3918 Australia

Copyright © Kerry Greenwood 1997

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-In-Publication data:

Greenwood, Kerry

MEDEA

ISBN 978-0-9871603-3-1

Cover Design © Ran Valerhon

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