Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26036-4
Bowen’s eighth Royal Spyness mystery (after 2013’s Heirs and Graces) is a showcase for the series’ many strengths. The year 1934 finds Lady Georgiana Rannoch, an impoverished cousin of George V, adrift, with nothing particular to do in the Kent...
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Rhys Bowen, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-26587-8
When a documentary film crew arrives in the Welsh village of Llanfair to try to raise a WWII German bomber sunk in a lake, Constable Evan Evans finds he has more to do than simply keep the curious at bay in this light police procedural. The film's...
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Rhys Bowen, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-30113-2
Agatha Award-winner Rhys Bowen (Death of Riley) presents her good-natured Welsh policeman with a painful personal challenge in Evan Only Knows: A Constable Evans Mystery, the seventh entry in this winning series. A visit to his mother in Swansea...
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Rhys Bowen, Author Berkley Publishing Group $23.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-425-21567-8
Set in London in 1930, this merry first in a new cozy series from Agatha-winner Bowen introduces a delightful heroine\x97Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie. Thirty-fourth in line for the English throne, Georgie has been educated to curtsey,...
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Rhys Bowen, Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-62810-9
Set in 1903, Bowen's engaging 10th Molly Murphy mystery (after 2010's The Last Illusion) finds the maverick New York City PI at a major personal turning point. Her impending marriage to Capt. Daniel Sullivan of the NYPD will, at his insistence, mark
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-24349-7
Fans of Peter Lovesey's hilarious books transforming the future Edward VII into an unlikely sleuth will relish Bowen's whimsical fifth Royal Spyness mystery starring Lady Georgiana Rannoch, 34th in line to the British throne (after 2010's Royal...
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Rhys Bowen. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-62811-6
Agatha-winner Bowen’s suspenseful 11th Molly Murphy mystery (after 2011’s Bless the Bride) takes Molly and her new husband, NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, to Newport, R.I., for their honeymoon in the fall of 1903. Late one night, in the midst of a...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-25278-9
Set at Christmas-time 1933, Bowen’s sixth whodunit featuring the irrepressible Lady Georgiana Rannoch (after 2011’s Naughty in Nice) may be her best yet. Despite her connections (albeit attenuated) to the Crown (she’s 35th in the line of succession),
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Rhys Bowen. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-01163-3
Set in 1904, Bowen’s well-paced 12th mystery featuring feisty and endearing Molly Murphy (after 2012’s Hush Now, Don’t You Cry) finds Molly unable to resist taking on a missing persons case, despite her promise to her new husband, NYPD Capt. Daniel...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26002-9
Set in 1934, Bowen’s rollicking seventh Royal Spyness mystery (after 2012’s The Twelve Clues of Christmas) finds Lady Georgiana Rannoch, a distant cousin of George V, typing up her mother’s life story. But once Mummy decides her memoirs are too...
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Rhys Bowen, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-25244-1
When Madame Yvette, a seductive widow, opens a French restaurant in Llanfair, in northern Wales, her blend of haute cuisine and traditional Welsh fare soon wins over the locals, including Constable Evan Evans, the village's lone policeman and the...
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Rhys Bowen. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05202-5
The extremely tricky plot of Bowen’s 14th Molly Murphy mystery (after 2014’s City of Darkness and Light) will keep even veteran whodunit readers guessing. It’s 1905, and Molly has ostensibly retired from private-detective work since marrying NYPD...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26038-8
Bowen's ninth Royal Spyness mystery (after 2014's Queen of Hearts) is the best yet in this lighthearted series set in 1930s England. Queen Mary summons amateur sleuth Lady Georgiana "Georgie" Rannoch, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, to the...
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Rhys Bowen. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-05203-2
Set around Christmas in 1905 New York City, Bowen’s so-so 15th Molly Murphy mystery (after The Edge of Dreams) finds Molly, no longer a PI, preoccupied with being a good wife to NYPD Capt. Daniel Sullivan and mother to their baby, Liam. When Liam’s...
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Rhys Bowen. Minotaur, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-05204-9
Contrivances undermine the plot of Bowen’s 16th Molly Murphy whodunit (after 2015’s Away in a Manger). In 1906, the refusal of Molly’s husband, NYPD Capt. Daniel Sullivan, to go along to get along has earned him the distrust of his corrupt superiors.
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-28348-6
Set in late 1934, Bowen’s outstanding 10th Royal Spyness Mystery (after 2015’s Malice at the Palace) opens on the road to Gretna Green, Scotland, where distant heir to the British throne Lady Georgiana Rannoch and the Honorable Darcy O’Mara plan to...
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Rhys Bowen. Lake Union, $24.95 (408p) ISBN 978-1-4778-1829-9
Set in England during the early years of WWII, this well-crafted, thoroughly entertaining thriller from Agatha Award–winner Bowen (Crowned and Dangerous and nine other Royal Spyness mysteries) follows the lives of three childhood friends: RAF flying
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-28350-9
Agatha Award–winner Bowen’s amusing 11th Royal Spyness mystery (after 2016’s Crowned and Dangerous) takes Lady Georgiana “Georgie” Rannoch, 35th in line to the British throne, to Italy in the spring of 1935. She joins a house party hosted at a...
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Rhys Bowen. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-12572-9
A moving opening compensates only in part for the uninspired plot of Agatha-winner Bowen’s 17th Molly Murphy mystery. In 2016’s Time of Fog and Fire, Molly miscarried while she was in San Francisco to save her husband, NYPD Capt. Daniel Sullivan,...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-28352-3
Bestseller Bowen’s disappointing 12th Royal Spyness mystery (after 2017’s On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service) lacks her usual charm. Lady Georgiana Rannoch, a distant—and impoverished—relative of the British royal family, is a month away...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-312-28645-3
In his sixth appealing outing (after 2001's Evan Cat Wait), likable Welsh village bobby Evan Evans takes on a case with New Age overtones. Betsy the barmaid has long been desperate for recognition, and she may have found her ticket to fame when...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-98497-7
In Bowen's second Molly Murphy adventure (after 2001's Agatha-winning Murphy's Law), the spirited Irish immigrant is determined to bring a killer to justice and, in doing so, break all the rules for proper young ladies amid 1901 New York
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (322p) ISBN 978-0-312-31300-5
In Bowen's engaging third Molly Murphy historical (after 2002's Death of Riley
), Molly finds it's not easy to be a female detective with a brogue as thick as ham in 1901 New York. Late one night, two brutish cops haul her off to the...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-30114-9
In Agatha winner Bowen's perfectly paced, deftly choreographed Welsh cozy, her eighth to feature Constable Evan Evans (after 2003's Evan Only Knows
), Evan looks into two eerily similar abduction cases—one old, one new. When five-year-o
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-32815-3
In Bowen's absorbing, well-plotted fourth entry in this Agatha Award–winning historical series (after 2003's For the Love of Mike
), Molly Murphy's former beau, policeman Daniel Sullivan, arranges for Molly to leave New York City (a
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-33206-8
In Edgar-finalist Bowen's smooth, fast-paced ninth Constable Evans mystery (after 2004's Evan's Gate
), the case of a girl who's disappeared while hiking on Mt. Snowdon interrupts Evan Evans and Bronwen Price's wedding...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-312-32817-7
In Agatha-winner Bowen's entertaining if imperfect fifth Molly Murphy mystery (after 2005's In Like Flynn
), the feisty Irish lass, who has immigrated to New York City and become a PI, comes to the rescue of someone very near and dear to her,
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-312-34942-4
In Edgar-finalist Bowen's delightful 10th novel to feature her Det. Constable Evan Evans (after 2004's Evan's Gate
), the serene North Wales village of Llanfair is again roiled by intrigue and murder. Evan's worries begin when his...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (265p) ISBN 978-0-312-32819-1
Set in 1903, Bowen's sixth brisk Molly Murphy historical (after 2006's Oh Danny Boy
) takes the Irish immigrant to New York City back to the Emerald Isle for an assignment to find a theater impresario's long-lost sister, left behind when
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-28206-6
The prolific Bowen, creator of Welsh constable Evan Evans (Evan Can Wait; Evan and Elle; etc.), relies a bit too much on coincidence but conveys a nice sense of place and period in this debut of a new historical series with its spunky, 19th-century...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $23.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-312-34943-1
Several cases keep Molly Murphy busy in Agatha-winner Bowen’s winning seventh mystery to star the Irish immigrant PI (after 2007’s In Dublin’s Fair City
). In December 1902, Molly and her beau, suspended New York City police...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-425-22163-1
To make ends meet, slightly impoverished but well-connected Lady Georgiana Rannoch takes on house-cleaning jobs in disguise in Agatha-winner Bowen's enchanting second mystery set in 1930s England (after 2007's Her Royal Spyness
). A tea...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-312-38534-7
Near the start of Anthony-winner Bowen’s delightful eighth Molly Murphy mystery (after 2008’s Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
), two Vasser alum friends persuade the Irish-born detective to march for women’s rights with the VWVW (“Vass
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Rhys Bowen, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-425-22788-6
Set in 1932, Bowen's winning third Royal Spyness whodunit to feature Lady Georgiana, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and 34th in line to the English throne (after 2008's A Royal Pain
), will please fans of romantic, humorous...
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Rhys Bowen, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (279p) ISBN 978-0-312-38540-8
Set in New York City in 1903, Bowen’s winning ninth Molly Murphy mystery (after 2009’s In a Gilded Cage
) opens with a magic show at Miner’s Theatre on the Bowery, attended by Molly and her fiancé, police captain Daniel...
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Rhys Bowen, Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-23446-4
Agatha-winner Bowen successfully mixes Wodehousian farce with a whodunit plot in her fourth 1930s mystery starring Lady Georgiana Rannoch (after 2009's Royal Flush). When the queen asks Georgiana, a distant relative of George V, to attend the...
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Rhys Bowen, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-19411-6
The pseudymous Bowen, a veteran English mystery author, continues the estimable cozy series starring Constable Evan Evans (Evans Above, 1997). Llanfair, North Wales, has suddenly become a hotbed of change: a single woman and her daughter move into...
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Rhys Bowen, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-20539-3
Welsh Constable Evan Evans is conscripted to sing tenor in the town of Llanfair's male choir in the third book (after Evan Help Us) of Bowen's charming series. Soon after his first rehearsal, Evan and the other singers learn that world-famous...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49284-5
Set in 1935, bestseller Bowen’s disappointing 13th Royal Spyness mystery (after 2018’s Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding) finds Lady Georgiana Rannoch, a distant relative of the royal family, finally married to Darcy O’Mara, who performs shadowy...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-49287-6
Agatha-winner Bowen’s 14th Royal Spyness mystery (after 2019’s Love and Death Among the Cheetahs) falls short of her usual high standard. In 1935, the once impoverished and recently married Georgiana O’Mara, née Rannoch, having inherited a fortune,...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-4400-0008-2
It’s 1935 in Agatha winner Bowen’s warmhearted 16th Royal Spyness mystery (after 2020’s The Last Mrs. Summers), and newlyweds Lady Georgie Rannoch and dashing Darcy O’Mara are looking forward to their first Christmas together. But when Darcy’s Aunt...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley Prime Crime, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-43785-8
Set in 1936, Bowen’s middling 16th Royal Spyness mystery (after 2021’s God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen) demands even more suspension of disbelief than usual. Though Lady Georgiana “Georgie” Ranoch O’Mara is expecting her first child, she’s still roped...
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Rhys Bowen and Claire Broyles. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-80805-9
Set in 1907, bestseller Bowen’s uneven 18th Molly Murphy mystery (after 2017’s The Ghost of Christmas Past), coauthored with daughter Broyles, takes Molly to Ellis Island one cold winter day to help distribute warm clothing to immigrants. There...
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Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. Minotaur, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-80809-7
It’s 1907 in Bowen’s mildly diverting 19th Molly Murphy mystery, the second coauthored with her daughter (after 2022’s Wild Irish Rose), and Molly’s police captain husband, Daniel Sullivan, has some shocking news for her. Despite Daniel’s previous...
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Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. Minotaur, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-89078-8
The mother-daughter team of Bowen and Broyles paint by numbers in their ho-hum third Molly Murphy historical mystery (after All That Is Hidden). In 1908 New York City, a pregnant Molly has shuttered her private detective agency at the urging of her...
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Rhys Bowen. Berkley, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-64136-1
In Bowen’s thin if enjoyable 18th adventure for Lady Georgiana “Georgie” Rannoch (after The Proof of the Pudding), Georgie tries to help King Edward out of a jam. The year is 1936, and Edward (“David” to Georgie, his somewhat distant cousin) has...
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