Her Royal Spyness
Rhys Bowen

The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family.

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.

Berkley, July 2007
336 pages ISBN: 0425215679
Hardcover
$23.95

Also by Rhys Bowen:
Her Royal Spyness, July 2008
A Royal Pain, July 2008
Evan Blessed, July 2006
Evan Only Knows, July 2005
Evan's Gate, April 2005
Evans to Betsy, February 2003
Evan Can Wait, December 2001
Evan and Elle, March 2001
Evanly Choirs, August 2000
Evan Help Us, December 1999
Evans Above, December 1998

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