![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily for Georgie the dashing Darcy also turns up – he happens to be a cousin of Lady Hawse-Gorsley, the hostess for the weekend. ![]() Her sojourn is livened by the fact that her scandalous mother and Noel Coward have taken a nearby cottage, and they’re waited on by Georgie’s beloved (though working class) Grandfather. Georgie has good instincts and an uneasy feeling, however. The murder victims are an array of various villagers, all killed or found dead in odd ways, many of them explainable as accidents. This has all the classic British village house party elements, with a super high body count. In this novel she is rescued from the gloom of her ancestral Scottish castle by an ad asking for a hostess at a country house party. Georgie is impoverished and forced to eke out a living in various “lady like” occupations, none of them very remunerative. The tone of these novels is lighter and funnier than Bowen’s Molly Murphy series, but like that series, the action revolves around a strong female lead. My favorite in this series, A Royal Pain, involves Queen Mary’s request for Georgie’s help in quashing the romance between Mrs. There are references to “Great Grandmother” Victoria and the horrors of Mrs. This is another fun entry in Rhys Bowen’s delightful Lady Georgie series, about the travails of a young woman in the 1930’s who is 35 th in line to the throne. ![]()
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