
Molly Murphy is a spirited redhead who grew up a peasant on the coast of Ireland. Masked Ball at Broxley Manor (2012, prequel short story).Love and Death Among the Cheetahs (2019).Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding (2018).

On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service (2017).For more details, go to the Her Royal Spyness reading order. Soon, this amateur sleuth starts to solve crimes. And when her brother cuts off her allowance, she leaves Scotland for London where she has been summoned by the Queen to spy on her playboy son. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch, is flat broke. Her Royal Spyness is a humorous historical series about the penniless cousin of King George V of England in 1932 who is acting as a spy for the queen. Her Royal Spyness (or Lady Georgiana “Georgie” series) For more details, go to the Constable Evan Evans reading order.

It is a cozy little town filled with unforgettable characters–and of course, a hint of murder. If you like Rhys Bowen’s work, you may also want to see our Louise Penny reading order, or our guide to Elizabeth Peters’s Amelia Peabody series.Įvan Evans is a young police constable that has traded city life for that of Llanfair-an idyllic Welsh village. She shares her time between California and Arizona and when she’s not writing, she loves to travel, sing, hike, paint, play the Celtic harp, and taking care of her grandchildren. She and been nominated and won multiple awards, including the Agatha and Macavity Awards.

She published three series under this name: one featuring the Welsh police constable Evan Evans another featuring British aristocrat Lady Georgiana in 1930s England and a third featuring Irish immigrant Molly Murphy living in early 1900s New York City. She started writing under the name Rhys Bowen in the 1990s. She published her first books during the 1980s mostly romance for young adults, under her name Janet Quin-Harkin (those books are not listed below). She moved to the United States when she married John Quin-Harkin, which whom she had four children. Born in Bath, Somerset, she graduated from the University of London in 1963 and before writing novels, she worked as a drama teacher, a dance teacher, in the drama department of the BBC in London and, later, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, Australia. Rhys Bowen is the pseudonym used by Janet Quin-Harkin, as a writer of mystery novels for adults. Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.Īll of the Rhys Bowen’s Books in Order! Who is Rhys Bowen?
