Name: Her Royal Spyness
Rating: 3.46875 (32 reviews)
ISBN: 9781405643085

Rhys Bowen

Her name is Lady Victoria Georgina Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt & Rannoch. She's flat broke. A girl of her standing should be hosting fetes, & marrying into a noble family. But she's bolted from Scotland & her impending nuptials.

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Rebecca C Wright

I love this series. The main character is funny and smart. Reading this I got a great feeling for time period and the fashions. Lovely read!

A penniless twenty-something member of the extended British royal family, Lady Victoria, the daughter of the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch, puts her sleuthing talents to work when an arrogant Frenchman, who is determined to gain control of her family's eight-hundred-year-old estate for himself, ends up dead in her bathtub. Reprint.

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           The year is 1932, and Georgie lives in a drafty Scottish castle with her brother's family. As soon as she turns twenty-one, she is cut off from her allowance and forced to marry a ghastly prince that she does not like. To support herself and living a freedom-filled life, she flees her ancestral home to London and takes up nontraditional jobs. The queen hampers her fresh start, asking Georgie to spy on Prince William and Wallis Simpson. To make matters worse, a dead body appears in Georgie's bathtub. Not just any dead body, but the body of someone who wanted to take her family's estate. Georgie must investigate and find the killer to clear her family's name.

I had a hard time getting through this book. Despite the author's intention to create some background for Georgie, it took over 100 pages to begin the mystery. My perception of Georgie is that she's a Mary Sue. In order not to be recognized by others, Georgie delegated too many investigative tasks to friends and relatives. It is not interesting to hear her friends and family update her on their findings. It was more important to me that Georgie was out there investigating than she was! Currently, she is not an active amateur detective. Despite its mystery, I found it too predictable. The clues felt glaringly obvious, and I guessed the killer right away.

I would recommend skipping this book if you're looking for a mystery.

Fran Lewis

It was an easy read and very interesting.

Lucia Correa

I think if this wasn't an audio book I 'd ether like it better if reading a copy or skim trough the last chapters just to find out who did it. I also stuck with it because I had a 2hr drive & 2hrs of book left. The affected upper class English accents started to grate on my nerves and Georgia's knack of making things worse such as mucking up evidence that would implicate rather than help prove her brother's innocence. It wasn't all the narrator's fault, Bowen mentions a number of times the affected accents, especially of one character in particular. Georgie, in spite of doing silly things, next the Queen she was the smartest Character in the book and i didn't hate her but she's not a favorite. Would I read book 2 in the series? Highly unlikely.

Sarah Escorsa

What a fun read! I started the book yesterday and couldn't put it down until I finished, it was exactly the kind of reading I needed:) I loved the characters, the 1930s setting, the humour... everything! Now can't wait to read "A Royal Pain."

Erin 

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           I started this book because I needed something to read on the train that I already had on my iBooks app because the current book I was reading was too delicate to spend its days jostling around in my purse. I am so glad I chose this one. This book (and presumably the rest of the series as well) makes me certain that I was part of the British peerage in a past life. Not that that is the main part of the story, but it is delightfully charming. I love how modern the story feels, not at all stuffy. I thoroughly enjoyed Georgie's character and am certain we would be friends. Even with the small scare about Belinda's credibility, I really liked her too. I am glad that Darcy turned out to be decent - I suspected so (he seemed too obvious to be the villain) and look forward to reading more about his and Georgie's relationship in the future. Despite his high faults, I did like Binky as well. While some of the twists I didn't call (especially about Sir Hubert's will), it was rather predictable. I guessed the murderer well in advance of the reveal and even his little secret he shared with Whiffy. Nonetheless, I raced right through this book and look forward to reading the rest of the series.

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Madeline Adams

THE FIRST ROYAL SPYNESS MYSTERY! The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers.”* London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed. London is a place where she'll experience freedom, learn life lessons aplenty, do a bit of spying for HRH—oh, and find a dead Frenchman in her tub. Now her new job is to clear her long family name...

Kristina Sanders

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Aunica Sherwood

The author of the Molly Murphy mysteries now turns her attentions to the mischief, mishaps and musings of minor English royalty My ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie. Thirty-fourth in line for the throne, I am, as they say, flat broke. When my brother Binky cut off my meager allowance, I bolted from Scotland - and my engagement to Fish-Face (I mean, Prince Siegfried) - for London, where I have: a) built a fire in the hearth - entirely on my own, thank you very much b) fallen for an absolutely unsuitable Irish peer c) made a few quid housekeeping incognito, and d) been summoned by the Queen Herself to spy on her playboy son. Less than thrilled with this last bit, I'm wondering what to do, when an arrogant Frenchman - who was trying to swipe our family estate! - winds up dead in my bathtub. Now, my new job is to clear that very long family name . . .

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