Naughty in Nice
Ratings16
Average rating3.4
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Ratings16
Average rating3.4
In the fifth Royal Spyness Mystery, Lady Georgiana Rannoch discovers that being a minor royal has its privileges when she visits the glamorous—and dangerous—French Riviera… London, 1933. Her Majesty the Queen is sending Georgie off to Nice with a secret assignment—to recover her priceless, stolen snuff box from the disreputable Sir Toby Groper. Her Majesty’s trust is an honor, but an even greater honor is bestowed upon Georgie in Nice when none other than Coco Chanel asks her to model the latest fashions. Unfortunately, things go disastrously wrong on the catwalk and before Georgie can snatch the snuff box, someone’s life is snuffed out in a very dastardly way. With a murderer on the loose—and Georgie's beau Darcy seen in the company of another woman—how’s a girl to find any time to go to the casino?
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Short Review: Georgie (on task from the Queen) is in Nice for the winter to spy on Mrs Simpson and get a stolen snuff box back. As is normal, a dead body shows up and this time Georgie is the one accused.
On the whole this is better than the last two books of the series and Bowen seems to have realized that the “I'm a clumsy oaf that no one is going to love” bit is getting old. Georgie has more confidence here (with some reason because she is both more confident in her detective skills and there are people that are taking her under their wing and helping her work through some of the confidence issues.)
Darcy is more a side character here and that is not all bad.
My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/naughty-in-nice/
~Check out all my reviews over on The Bent Bookworm!~ “Please don't go and die on me, my lady,” she said. “If you go and die, nobody else will employ me, as you bloody well know.”If you haven't read the previous books in this series, they are very enjoyable cozy mysteries with a long-running plot regarding the main characters, and I highly recommend you start with the first book, [b:Her Royal Spyness 383514 Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1) Rhys Bowen https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1174342700l/383514.SY75.jpg 2309133].
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18 primary books19 released booksHer Royal Spyness is a 19-book series with 18 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Rhys Bowen.
