Rhys Bowen at The Poisoned Pen

November 29, 2024

I debated this week. There were two authors I wanted to talk about who appeared at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in the last week. In the end, I decided to go with Rhys Bowen, author of the latest Royal Spyness novel, We Three Queens. Why? It was because of my...

Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen

August 04, 2019

In the course of the Royal Spyness series, Rhys Bowen’s books have grown a little more serious. The two books that foreshadow World War II, including this one, Love and Death Among the Cheetahs, are quite serious. After a short honeymoon on a houseboat,...

Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by Rhys Bowen

August 29, 2018

Rhys Bowen’s latest Royal Spyness mystery has been out almost a month, but I just had a chance to read it.  Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding is a fun romp that wraps up the suspense so many readers have been awaiting. Will Lady Georgiana Rannoch finally...

The Ghost of Christmas Past By Rhys Bowen

November 13, 2017

There’s an atmosphere of sorrow and foreboding that hangs over Bowen’s latest mystery, The Ghost of Christmas Past. After Molly Murphy Sullivan’s miscarriage and the events during the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco (Time of Fog and Fire), Molly’s still mourning....

On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service by Rhys Bowen

August 06, 2017

Although Lady Georgiana is still as candid as ever, the latest Royal Spyness mystery takes a serious turn. Rhys Bowen takes Georgie to pre-World War II Italy in On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service. When Darcy O’Mara has to leave the family...