Book #54: Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen

This book kind of goes along with all the Maisie Dobbs books I was reading over the summer (and I'm actually reading another one right now)--an attractive young woman in London in the 1930s starts solving crimes. But Maisie Dobbs is set much more in the aftermath of WWI and the difficulties of the depression, while Her Royal Spyness seems much more happy-go-lucky Roarin' 20s-ish. Lady Georgiana, a duke's daughter, is a "minor royal," as she says, and gets caught up in a mystery when she finds a man drowned in her family's London home's bathtub. Eventually it comes to light that someone is also trying to kill her, and she manages to figure out who it is and find love in the bargain. Hooray!

I didn't love the author's style--it seemed pretty clunky at times--but I did get attached to Georgie and kept going back to thinking about the storyline after finishing it. I don't really feel interested in reading more of the sequels, but it was a fun, quick read.