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Here’s a very cheeky cozy that both celebrates and satirizes the conventions of the English country-house mystery. Bowen sets her latest in the depths of the Depression, allowing hints of hard times to seep into even her upper-class milieu. Lady Georgiana Rannoch, the heroine of the Royal Spyness series (this is the sixth entry), is in line for succession to the throne. But she’s thirty-fifth in line, enough to get invited to the occasional royal party but not enough to pay the rent. She’s about to be evicted by repellent relatives from her family home, Castle Rannoch, in Scotland, when she sees an ad in The Lady asking for someone of “impeccable background” to supervise festivities at a country house in a tiny English village, Tiddleton-under-Lovey. The villagers seem to be accident-prone: one falls out of a tree and dies; another drowns; another is asphyxiated, prompting Lady Georgiana to turn from games-mistress to investigator. Bowen, who has won both the Agatha and Anthony Awards, gives us another tongue-in-cheek romp. With Christmas recipes and instructions for traditional games at book’s end. --Connie Fletcher
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“Like all of Rhys’s books, this is so much more than a murder mystery. It’s part love story, part social commentary, part fun and part downright terrifying. And completely riveting. ”—Louise Penny, author of The Beautiful Mystery
“Bowen blends zany humor with fair-play detection.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Delightful.”—Kirkus Reviews
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- Series: A Royal Spyness Mystery (Book 6)
- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Berkley; Reprint edition (November 5, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0425252345
- ISBN-13: 978-0425252345
- Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
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Lady Georgiana Rannoch, sister to the current duke, had impeccable royal credentials, but she was stone broke. Even great-grandmama, Queen Victoria, couldn't help her there. In the meantime she was stuck in her ancestral home waiting on her sister-in-law, Fig, instead of waiting for her prince to come. "You'd have thought," spouted Fig's mother, Lady Wormwood, "someone would have taken her off your hands by now." Darcy O'Mara was no prince, but if Georgie did get the chance to marry him it would be for love. That was if he quit that spy stuff and asked her. Thirty-fifth in line for the throne and stuck in Castle Rannoch in a blizzard. She'd throw a wobbly, but that just wouldn't do. Not today anyway.
But wait, there could be something that might help. Lady Camilla Hawse-Gorzley had placed an ad asking for assistance in hosting "with the social duties of large Christmas house party." Georgie was going to get that job, leave, and would even take her walking catastrophe of a maid Queenie with her. She'd "set her former employer on fire with a wayward candle," but hopefully she'd behave. When they arrived they discovered everything had gone all pear shaped because Freddie Partridge had shot himself in a pear tree. Honestly, of all places to top oneself. Their stay Tiddleton-under Lovey, Devonshire was starting off with a bang.
It would be perfect because her granddad, Albert Spinks, also was in residence in Tiddleton. Oh, and mummy had taken up with Noel Coward there too and Darcy was there. Georgie quickly learned that everyone was saying that the Lovey Curse had struck again after Ted Grover's body "were found drowned in Lovey Brook this morning." Two bodies in two days?
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