Royal Spyness Series
Royal Spyness Mystery Series
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Rhys Bowen mystery author and Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family.
Her Royal Spyness
(A Royal Spyness Mystery #1)
Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN #0425215679
Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch. And she is flat broke. As the thirty-fourth in line for the throne, she has been taught only a few things, among them, the perfect curtsey. But when her brother cuts off her allowance, she leaves Scotland, and her fiancé Fish-Face, for London, where she has:
a) worked behind a cosmetics counter—and gotten sacked after five hours
b) started to fall for a quite unsuitable minor royal
c) made some money housekeeping (incognita, of course), and
d) been summoned by the Queen to spy on her playboy son
Then an arrogant Frenchman, who wants her family’s 800-year-old estate for himself, winds up dead in her bathtub. Now her most important job is to clear her very long family name.
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A Royal Pain
(A Royal Spyness Mystery #2)
Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN #0425221636
The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess—and conveniently place her in the playboy Prince’s path, in the hopes that he might finally marry.
But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise. She must draw up plans: clean house to make it look like a palace; have Granddad and her neighbor pretend to be the domestic staff; un-teach Princess Hanni the English she’s culled from American gangster movies; cure said Princess of her embarrassing shoplifting habit; and keep an eye on her at parties. Then there’s the worrying matter of the body in the bookshop and Hanni’s unwitting involvement with the Communist Party. It’s enough to drive a girl crazy…
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Royal Flush
(A Royal Spyness Mystery #3)
ISBN #9780425227886
A Royal Spyness mystery starring Lady Georgiana, thirty-fourth in line for the throne—and the mystery world’s favorite penniless heiress.
With its posh clientele in the country for the summer, Georgie’s housecleaning business has fizzled. So she tries hiring herself out as a dinner and theatre companion. But her first client has quite the wrong idea. To avoid further scandal, Georgie’s shipped home to Castle Rannoch, where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannoch’s divorcée houseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales. She’s also been coerced into helping Scotland Yard with a top-secret mission—namely keeping an eye on the shooting party at Balmoral and preventing someone from shooting the Prince. And Georgie must manage all this without strangling her odious sister-in-law Fig or spineless brother Binky.
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Royal Blood
(A Royal Spyness Mystery #4)
Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN 10: 0425243745
Penniless and thirty-fourth in line to the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself in a truly draining state of affairs. To escape her hateful brother, Georgie accepts an invitation from the Queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. But at the macabre-looking castle, Georgie finds the bride with blood running down her chin, and a wedding guest is poisoned. Now it’s up to Georgie to save the nuptial festivities before the couple’s vows become “to love and to cherish, till ‘undeath’ do them part…”
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Naughty in Nice
(A Royal Spyness Mystery #5)
Berkley Prime Crime
ISBN 10: 0425243494
In 1933, Georgie, the mystery world’s favorite penniless heiress, escapes to the French Riviera after Her Majesty the Queen sends her there on a mission to recover her stolen snuff box.
Lady Georgie is honored to be trusted by the Queen—and even more honored when she meets Coco Chanel and is asked to model her latest clothing line. But when a necklace belonging to the Queen is stolen on the catwalk, Georgie not only has to find two priceless items—she also has an unsolved murder on her hands and has to keep an eye on her love interest, Darcy O’Mara, who has been acting awfully suspicious throughout Georgie’s ordeal.
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[...] year I found myself, by a circuitous route of Amazon recommendations, reading the description for Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen. The premise: It’s 1932 and Lady Georgiana (Georgie) is a minor and thoroughly penniless [...]
I hope you enjoy the Royal Spyness books, Caroline
[...] Maisie’s character and the mysteries gently unfold before you across each book in the series. Her Royal Spyness on the other hand is a romp, pure and simple. And what a fun romp it [...]
I adore Maisie Dobbs too–we represent the two sides of the same era. Glad you enjoy the Spyness books.
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[...] funny & I especially liked the cartoons. I read two books, Royal Pain and Royal Flush, from the Royal Spyness Series by Rhys Bowen. Thank you Tina for recommending these wonderful books to me. Now I’m hooked!! [...]
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[...] list–Katherine Kellgren. I’ve fallen in love with two series she reads, the Rhys Bowen Her Royal Spyness books and the LA Meyer Bloody Jack series. The former is cozy mystery and the latter swashbuckling [...]
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