Sacked from her first real job, at Harrods, when her mother breezes through and they have a slight falling out, Georgie decides to set up an agency that opens up and airs houses for nobility visiting London with minimal servants. Georgie’s having none of it and takes herself off to the family’s London house, where she begins to learn domestic chores with the help of her one surviving grandparent – a cockney ex-copper. Georgie’s half-brother is now the duke, after their father committed suicide (he shot himself deliberately, in spite of being hopeless at hitting game on official shoots), and he and his wife have decided they can no longer support Georgie and must marry her off post-haste. Georgie’s mother – her father’s second wife – was an actress who got bored of being a penniless duchess very rapidly and has been working her way through rich men abroad ever since. Georgie – Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie – is the only daughter of the Duke of Glen Garry and Rannoch, himself the son of Queen Victoria’s least attractive daughter. Anyway, this is a new-to-me author and series in a subgenre I love (cosy mysteries set between the two world wars with down-on-their-luck female aristocratic protagonists), so here goes… I’m assuming this book is being (re)issued in one or more new formats, since review copies were floating about last month. Stevie‘s review of Her Royal Spyness (A Royal Spyness Mystery, Book 1) by Rhys BowenĬosy Mystery published by Berkley 1 Jul 08
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