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A Royal Pain – Rhys Bowen
3***

Book two in Her Royal Spyness cozy mystery series, has Lady Georgiana Rannoch (Georgie to her friends) hosting a Bavarian princess as part of Her Majesty’s plan to get the Prince of Wales interested in a more suitable partner than that awful American woman. Princess Hannelore is only eighteen and fresh from the convent, but she’s eager to finally explore a big city and enjoy flirting with boys … from an impoverished bookshop clerk to the attendees at a swanky party to the eligible men at a country estate. But a tragic accident at the swanky party threatens to embroil the Princess in a scandal and cause an international incident.

I like Georgie as a character, and love her grandfather, the retired London bobby, as well as her best friend, Belinda. But the plot here didn’t really capture my attention. I felt it dragged and it seemed Bowen was trying too hard to weave the various deaths together into a whole conspiracy. Still, it does give an added dimension to impoverished Irish Peer Darcy O’Mara. He may be more than just an unreliable rogue…



My review HERE