Rhys Bowen
1) Murphy's Law
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The novel that started it all, Murphy's Law, will delight readers old and new of this remarkable, bestselling series.
Molly Murphy always knew she'd end up in trouble, just as her mother predicted. So, when she commits murder in self-defense, she flees her cherished Ireland, under cover of a false identity, for the anonymous shores of America. When she arrives in New York and sees the welcoming promise of freedom in the Statue
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2017.
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English
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Agreeing to help her cousin the queen thwart an elopement between the Prince of Wales and the dreadful Mrs. Simpson, royal sleuth Georgie Rannoch offers assistance to her pregnant friend while clashing with an old rival from finishing school.
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2019.
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English
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When Georgie and Darcy arrive in Kenya's Happy Valley for their honeymoon, one of the leaders in the community is found dead, forcing them to navigate the local aristocracy's wild parties and rampant infidelities to identify a killer in hiding.
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In 1907, after helping distribute clothing to those in need on Ellis Island, Molly discovers, through her policeman husband, that a murder occurred on the island that day and the suspect is the spitting image of her and feels strongly that fate wants her to clear this woman’s name.
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Lady Georgiana Rannoch is off to solve a Hollywood homicide in the eighth mystery in the New York Times bestselling Royal Spyness series.
England, 1934. Georgie's mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again—which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie divorce in Reno. To offer her moral support, Georgie agrees to go along on the all expenses paid voyage across the Atlantic.
While...
England, 1934. Georgie's mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again—which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie divorce in Reno. To offer her moral support, Georgie agrees to go along on the all expenses paid voyage across the Atlantic.
While...
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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A delectable prequel to the national bestselling Royal Spyness mysteries featuring Lady Georgiana Rannoch—thirty forth in line to the throne, and England’s poorest heiress.
At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man—until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until...
At the end of her first unsuccessful season out in society, Lady Georgiana has all but given up on attracting a suitable man—until she receives an invitation to a masked Halloween ball at Broxley Manor. Georgie is uncertain why she was invited, until...
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 16
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her dashing husband, Darcy, are awaiting a bundle of joy, but an unexpected trip to Paris will thrust them straight into a tangled web of international intrigue.
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 15
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Spending Christmas at Sandringham estate with an aunt who has ties to the royals, Georgie is distraught when she learns the Queen expects her to spy for her.
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 14
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Helping her friend inspect a recently inherited but uninhabitable Cornwall property, Georgie investigates a bossy host's suspicions that her husband murdered his first wife, allegations that are complicated by a creepy housekeeper and a long-ago tragedy.
13) Death of Riley
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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When her new employer is unexpectedly murdered, apprentice private investigator Molly Murphy is determined to catch the killer despite the skepticism of handsome NYPD detective Daniel Sullivan, in a case that brings her to the fateful appearance of McKinley at the 1901 Exposition.
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 14
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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After her police-captain husband receives taunting notes from a serial killer whose victims appear to have nothing in common, Molly Murphy is injured in a train crash that identifies her as an intended target.
16) The Tuscan child
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Lake Union Publishing
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2018.
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English
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Thirty years after her British bomber pilot father parachuted from his stricken plane into German-occupied Tuscany, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to learn about her father's hidden wartime past.
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Lake Union Publishing
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[2017]
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English
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World War II arrives at the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate and MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with investigating at the same time one of the daughters takes a secret job at Bletchley Park.
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In 1940 London, Josie, with nothing left and nowhere to go, ends up at the estate of the aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host of the survivors of the Blitz, and convinces her to open a tea shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again.
19) In like Flynn
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 4
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Private investigator Molly Murphy goes undercover within the household of a senator and his wife, the latter of whom frequently solicits the infamous Sorensen sister spiritualists for information about her presumed-dead son.
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While attending the party of Sir Mortimer Mordred, famous author of Gothic horror novels, who has borrowed her new chef to cater the festivities, Lady Georgiana Rannoch, when a guest dies of poisoning, must find the culprit to save her new chef and her own reputation—all before her bundle of joy arrives.