5 out of 5 quills ~~ Book Review 
This series, A Royal Spyness Mystery has entertained fans for years and I never missed a’one. Lady Georgiana began with not two pennies to rub together in the first book. Every job she got she either hated or the royal family got wind of it and forced her to leave (being the King’s cousin and thirteenth in the line of succession). In The Last Mrs. Summers, she surprisingly finds herself a sudden heir to a comfortable fortune, newly married, and rattling around alone in an inherited mansion, without her husband. When one of her best friends, Belinda, invites Georgie on a jaunt into Cornwall, she eagerly agrees. Anything to break the monotony of being left alone with just the servants; her husband gone off on one of his mysterious assignments for the English government.
The thing I really enjoy best about this series is the deftness in which Rhys Bowen drops the reader into Georgie’s life. We were 
last glam-camping with Georgie and Darcy (her husband) in Kenya listening to the lions roar twenty feet from the tent. Now, we are clumping up and down the streets in London, with Georgie, trying to find a friend who’s at home and wants to help Georgie break her boredom. I am immediately picked up out of my boredom (Covid-19) sitting at home and racing into Cornwall in Belinda’s sportscar. She’s a terrible driver, by the way.
Rhys Bowen has a deft way of showing the reader (rather than telling) who is in Georgie’s world, love life, relationship to the crown, and other murders she’s helped solve. ‘Showing rather than telling’ is a very familiar term to us writers and it takes real talent to keep the ‘telling’ to a minimum.
This is a wonderful series and it will be well worth it for new readers to begin with book one. However The Last Mrs. Summers stands alone and is a wonderful read.
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I just finished this book and found your review. I’ve bookmarked your site and looking forward to reading more entries. I love the Royal Spyness series and the writing in this book was so smooth and easy to read. I missed some of the humor in Lady Georgiana’s early scrambling, especially her meetings with the Queen. But, it was cozy to have less characters to keep track of and less angst with Darcy.
Hi Anna. thanks for your comments. Always welcomed. She’s a wonderful writer and I love the tongue-in-cheek humor of Lady Georgiana’s adventures. Please sign up to receive my weekly blog posts in an email.