Rhys Bowen
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"Georgie, back home at her estate in Eynsleigh, impatiently awaits the birth of her baby. But she has plenty to occupy her: her new chef, Pierre, has arrived from Paris, and Sir Hubert, who owns Eynsleigh, is back from his latest expedition. It's time for Georgie to throw her first house party to celebrate his return and show off her new chef. The dinner party is a smashing success. Sir Mortimer Mordred--famous author of creepy Gothic horror novels--is...
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2011
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With Molly Murphy's wedding to NYPD Captain Daniel Sullivan approaching, the Irish sleuth heads to the countryside where his mother advises her on a bride's proper place. She has already promised that she'll settle down after marrying, but that doesn't mean she can't squeeze in one last case.
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2007
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Searching for the long-lost sister of an Irish-American impresario, P.I. Molly Murphy leaves turn-of-the-century New York to head back to her native Ireland, only to be confronted by the murder of her maid and the disappearance of a famed Irish actress.
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2016.
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"Nothing is simple when you're thirty-fifth in line for the British crown, least of all marriage. But with love on their side, and plans to elope, Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her beau Darcy O'Mara hope to bypass a few royal rules... With Darcy driving me out of London in a borrowed motor car, I soon discover that he isn't planning to introduce me to the pleasures of sinning in secret--as I had hoped--but to make me his wife! Of course, there are...
6) Royal blood
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With her hateful brother, Binky, in town, Lady Georgiana Rannoch is desperately seeking an escape, which comes in the form of an invitation from the queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. The bride happens to be her old school chum, Marty. But staying in her macabre-looking castle proves to be unnerving--especially when she finds dear Marty with blood running down her chin, and a prominent wedding guest is poisoned.
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2018.
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"In the days leading up to her wedding to Darcy O'Mara, Lady Georgiana Rannoch takes on the responsibilities of a grand estate, but proving she can run a household just may be the death of her in the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service. If only Darcy and I had eloped! What I thought would be a simple wedding has been transformed into a grand affair, thanks to the attendance...
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Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper?Venice. Caroline?s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning?s ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years... It?s 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it?s a...
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2019.
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Georgie is excited when Darcy announces out of the blue that they are flying to Kenya for their extended honeymoon. It is only after they arrive that she suspects he has actually been sent there on an assignment. She tries not to be angry, because she is,after all, in a paradise! They are picked up in Nairobi and taken to a lovely house in Happy Valley--the center of upper-class English life there. Darcy finally confides that there have been some...
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"London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's beloved tearoom boss has been killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to go"--
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"World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man was a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter Pamela, whom he furtively loves....
12) The family way
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 12
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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296 pages ; 25 cm.
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"Molly Murphy--now Molly Sullivan--is a year into her marriage, expecting her first child, and confined to the life of a housewife. The most important decision Molly faces these days is whether the lace curtains need cleaning, and she's restless and irritable in the heat of a New York summer and the enforced idleness of pregnancy. So when a trip to the post office brings a letter addressed to her old detective agency asking her to locate a missing...
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 6
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
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311 p. ; 24 cm.
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While serving as an assistant to the hostess of a large Christmas house party in Tiddleton-under-Lovey, Georgie gets the attention of her retired detective grandfather after dead bodies begin showing up.
14) Royal flush
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 3
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
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306 p. ; 21 cm.
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To avoid scandal, Lady Georgiana is shipped home to Castle Rannoch where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannoch's divorceé houseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales. She's 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...
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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264 pages ; 22 cm
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"Semi-retired private detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is suffering from depression after a miscarriage following her adventure in San Francisco during the earthquake of 1906. She and her husband, Daniel, are invited for Christmas at a mansion on the Hudson, and they gratefully accept, expecting a peaceful and relaxing holiday season. Not long after they arrive, however, they start to feel the tension in the house's atmosphere. Then they learn that...