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| Her Royal Spyness (A Royal Spyness Mystery) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rhys Bowen
Publisher: Berkley
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 19969
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0425222527
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780425222522
ASIN: 0425222527
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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INTRODUCING A FEISTY NEW HEROINE (JACQUELINE WINSPEAR) whos thirty-fourth in line for the throneand flat broke.
From the Agatha Award-winning author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries!
Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the throne, is flat broke. Shes bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed for London. The place where shell experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for HRHoh, and find a dead Frenchman in her tub. Now her new job is to clear her long family name.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 Not In The Ballpark of Mystery, Adventure and/or Humor November 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book was suggested based on my Amazon previous purchases so I read the many great reviews and decided to purchase at my local bookstore. Normally, after a couple chapters of "boring" I would have set it aside but the glowing reviews pushed me to read more. I read the entire book waiting for the reviews to come true. I got nothing but a wasted 3 1/2 hours and a book I can't pass onto friends.
Pass on this book.
A entertaining peek at royalty... November 18, 2008
I always enjoy a well written British cozy and this one was a treat. I enjoyed the peek into the well heeled yet not wealthy British aristocracy and their determination to live up to expectations on a frugal budget. The story centers around Lady Georgina who gets her allowance cut off from her brother and she is ill prepared on how to earn funds to support herself. After some failed attempts at gainful employment, she comes up with the idea to start her own "light cleaning" business. She opens and prepares the homes of other wealthy peers of her social class and winds up learning a lot of secrets about them since maids and servants are overlooked. This allows her to do some detecting to clear her brother's name when a less than savory man shows up to claim their family home is found murdered in their London home's bathtub. This is an enjoyable read and I can't wait to read the next installment.
 her royal spyness October 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I decided to try "Her Royal Spyness" because I am such a fan of Rhy Bowen's Molly Murphy mysteries. This series is different but just as good. Compared to the Molly Murphy series, this new series has much more humor & a little less mystery. However, I still found myself hooked, & I love Georgiana, the main character & a minor royal.
It was ok October 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book was a bit too cavalier in my opinion. I read it at the same time I read Silent as the Grave and so preferred the character development of Lady Julia Gray to the one in Her Royal Spyness. She just seemed a bit sleazy to me
 Very light, but fun September 3, 2008
HER ROYAL SPYNESS (Cozy-Lady Victoria-England-1930s) - G
Bowen, Rhys - 1st in series
Berkeley Prime Crime, 2008, US Paperback - ISBN: 9780425222522
First Sentence: There are two disadvantages to being a minor royal.
Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie may be 34th in line for the throne, but she is also broke. She is staying at the family mansion, Rennoch House, in London and learning to be self-sufficient.
A disagreeable Frenchman shows up at the door looking for her brother. He claims their father, a gambler who had lost the family fortune, had also lost the family home, Castle Rennoch. Victoria later finds the Frenchman dead in the bathtub and her brother her brother headed back to the Castle. She doesn't believe her brother killed the Frenchman; how she just has to prove it.
This first book in Ms. Bowen's new series introduces us to a cast of delightful characters. While some seem to be social stereotypes, it's hard not to be drawn to Lady Victoria and her non-titled grandfather, an ex-policeman. In fact, almost the first half of the book introduces us to the characters. Only after that do we get into the mystery, which is decently done except for way too many coincidences.
The book is a bit too light for my taste, but it is a fun.
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