Another fun light and entertaining mystery series. This time written by Rhys Bowen, starting with Her Royal Spyness. Here we meet Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter of the Duke of Glen Garry and Rannoch. Georgiana is thirty four in line for the throne of England. She is after her half brother, Hamish , better known to his friends as Binky, the third Duke.
This novel starts off as just a fun light story of royal life when you have run out of money and you have never had to take care of yourself. When her father dies, Binky in an effort to save the family home has cut off Georgiana's allowance. He is hoping she will find a rich man, marry and settle down. Georgiana, of course, has other ideas. Off she goes to their London house without any servants and learns how to take care of herself. On her first night alone she finds out just how hard this can all be, "I found a kettle and I even found a tinderbox and a spill to light the gas. Feeling very proud of myself I boiled some water. I even located a tea caddy. Of course that was when I realized that there was no milk, nor was there likely to be unless I contacted the milkman."
But she gains experience as she goes along and about half way through the novel there is finally a murder. When her brother is accused of the crime, and Georgiana starts to realize there are just too many coincidences around her accidents, she begins to questions the friends who she is spending time with. They have all fallen on difficult times and are suspiciously happily crashing parties and gambling. Could there be something more sinister going on?
Definitely written in a fun style of first person, royalty. I will look into reading more the books in this series.
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