One of my favorite new series Rhys Bowen's "A Royal Spyness Mystery" featuring the Lady Georgiana Rannock. In this second of the series our heroine is saddled with entertaining a royal princess from Bavaria at the Queen's behest. The Queen hopes that this young royal, who has just come out of convent school, will attract the attention of her son, David, and get him out of the clutches of Wallace Simpson. (Well, we know how successful that was.)
I like novels set in this particular period in history. With the depression and political upheaval in Europe, there's lots to add to the backdrop of this story. The first in the series concentrated a great deal on the mores of post-Victorian England. While this book continues to focus on the differences between the classes in Britain, it adds the political intrigue of the rise of communism and facism to the plot of this book.
A jolly good read for those who like English cozys and Rhys Bowen's work.
Liz Nichols
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