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title: "Queen of Hearts (A Royal Spyness Mystery #8 by Rhys Bowen"
description: "Summary: Georgiana and her mother travel to the US and encounter theft and murder. Queen of Hearts came out just over a years ago. Many of the initial reviews were negative (although the average has..."
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date: 2015-08-24
modified: 2015-08-24
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# Queen of Hearts (A Royal Spyness Mystery #8 by Rhys Bowen

![](https://bookwi.se/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/3E42D8BF-00A2-48EC-85D2-1EC90F82B54A.png)**Summary: Georgiana and her mother travel to the US and encounter theft and murder.**

Queen of Hearts came out just over a years ago. Many of the initial reviews were negative (although the average has come up since it first came out.) I went ahead and picked it up since the next book in the series has also come out.

This cozy mystery series has stalled a bit and this book while not horrible, did not move the broader story along at all.

Georgiana’s mother decided to try to go to the US to get a quickie divorce so that she can marry her current man. Georgiana tags along. On the ocean liner there is a theft and maybe a murder. But a Hollywood director asks Georgiana’s mother to be in a movie (she is a well known stage actress) and so they head off to Hollywood.

As is normal, Georgiana’s secret fiancée Darcy happens to show up on the trip in pursuit of a jewel thief. Georgiana takes primary lead in solving the eventual murder (Darcy is not around for most of the main action). In several earlier books I was really irritated by Georgiana’s reticence. But she was much more forceful and present in this book.  So that is a move in the right direction.

On the whole this book is fluff and it is not a big deal to the series if you happen to skip it.

One random point, the final solution to the [Inspector Mairgret book that I read](https://bookwi.se/pietr-the-latvian/) immediately before this one was the key to this book as well. Normally I am not all that interested in trying to solve the mystery early, but since I had just read the basic solution in a book a few days earlier, it was pretty obvious.

**Queen of Hearts (A Royal Spyness Mystery #8 by Rhys Bowen Purchase Links: [Paperback](http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Hearts-Royal-Spyness-Mystery/dp/042526064X/), [Kindle Edition](http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Hearts-Royal-Spyness-Book-ebook/dp/B00G3L7X9Q/), [Audible.com Audiobook](http://www.amazon.com/Queen-of-Hearts/dp/B00M4MXLVC/)**

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