Slide 1: Royal Flush (Royal Spyness Mysteries, No. 3) by Rhys Bowen
Uneasy Lie The Heads Close To The Crown
A Royal Spyness mystery starring Lady Georgiana, thirty-fourth in line for the throne-and the mystery worlds favorite penniless heiress. With its posh clientele in the country for the summer, Georgies housecleaning business has fizzled. So she tries hiring herself out as a dinnerand- theatre companion. But her first client has quite the wrong idea. To avoid further scandal, Georgies shipped home to Castle Rannoch, where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannochs divorcée houseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales. Shes also been coerced into helping Scotland Yard with a top-secret mission-namely keeping an eye on the shooting party at Balmoral and preventing someone from shooting the Prince. And Georgie must manage all this without strangling her odious sister-in-law Fig or spineless brother Binky.
Slide 2: Personal Review: Royal Flush (Royal Spyness Mysteries, No. 3) by Rhys Bowen
Twenty-something Lady Georgiana ("Georgie" to family and friends) is thirty-fourth in line to the British throne during the summer of 1932. The younger sister of the Duke of Rannoch (aka Binky), Georgie is also quite impoverished and has not yielded to efforts to marry her off to undesirable men of appropriate rank. As the story opens, she's living alone (no servants) in the family's London house, somewhat at loose ends in the August heat, waiting for her annual trek to visit the Royal family at Balmoral which is two weeks away. A visit with her glamorous socialite friend Belinda gives Georgie an idea for a money-making scheme. But alas she's too naive to know what her innocently-intended ad in the Times for upper-class "escort" services means to the men who read it and call her. Saved from disaster by the handsome enigmatic young Darcy, she's packed off by Scotland Yard to her Rannoch family estate in Scotland, with a secret assignment: to keep an eye out for attacks on members of the royal family. Balmoral is practically next door and some odd things have occurred. She finds her brother Binky laid up with a nasty foot injury and her sisterin-law struggling to cope with a a houseful of American guests - including Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Simpson - who are being entertained by the Rannochs as a favor to the Prince of Wales. From the first moments, Georgie's visit home is anything but restful. There are close calls, physical danger, offputting strangers who want to get close to her, several encounters with the attractive Darcy, and murder. This story deftly blends fast-paced action, romance, and insight into Georgie's character, with bits of British history. The handful of continuing series characters are well-drawn, including Georgie's commoner grandfather, her awkward sister-in-law and clueless brother, her glamorous friend Belinda and her elegant, distant mother (who bolted with a lover when Georgie was a tyke, leaving her to be raised by her father). This was a fun and engaging read from start to finish.
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