![]() ![]() ![]() Part of Georgie's charm is that she's 35th in the line of succession to the British throne but has no actual place to live as an unmarried aristocratic female, no money of her own, and is forbidden to have a job. Bowen has created an immersive world to which one can't wait to return, with morning rooms, sneaky servants, upper-crust characters with names like Binky and Fig, and well, aforementioned cucumber sandwiches when Georgie can get her hands on them. This entry is heavier on Georgie's personal life and lighter on actual mystery. “Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding,” 12th in the series, finds Georgie (Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie Rannoch) inching closer to a trip down the aisle with her longtime beau Darcy, if only these pesky murders and international intrigue, surrounding her through 11 books now, would cease for just a minute. Questions I ask myself when reading Rhys Bowen's “Royal Spyness” cozy mysteries: Is a cucumber sandwich really that good? How does the heroine, Georgie (a minor royal engaged in amateur sleuthing in the 1930s), see over the long hood of her Bentley while ripping down the road? And why doesn't she channel her great-grandmother Queen Victoria's “I'm not amused” face more often? I would think that's a useful thing to have when snooping around. ![]() "Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding" by Rhys Bowen (Berkley, 304 pages, in stores) ![]()
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