Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen review

 Her Royal Spyness is the first in the Royal Spyness Series.  It is set in England in the early 1930s, and features Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, who is 34th in line for the English throne.  While she has a title, and is a member of high society, she doesn't have any money.  As Royalty, and a woman, she can't really take a job, which would be hard to find during the Depression in any event.

She is being supported by her brother and lives with him and his wife in their castle in Scotland.  However, her sister-in-law isn't happy they have to support her, and wants her to marry, preferably some one rich. And if not, then she wants her to become the companion of some elderly relative.

Lady Georgie runs away to London, and decides to stay in their family house.  It had been closed up, and there are no servants there, and no heat. To keep herself, she decides to start a housecleaning business, but keep her name out of it. 

When she returns one day, she finds a body in the bathtub.  The dead man was someone trying to collect on her late father's gambling debts, and had set up a meeting with Lady Georgina's brother, known to his family and friends as Binky.  And Binky had returned to Scotland, which Lady Georgie meant he would be the main suspect in the death.

She decides to investigate to clear her brother's name, and then the Queen wants her to go to a house party to see how infatuated her son is with the divorcee, Mrs. Simpson.  Lady Georgie is supposed to become the Queen's spy. 

While trying to solve the murder, and spying for the Queen, Georgie is also becoming terribly accident prone.  It finally occurs to her that someone is trying to kill her. 

Lady Georgina is a bright, determined, independent woman ahead of her time, and manages to solve the murder and finish her spying while managing to stay alive.

This was an interesting read, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.  Looking forward to reading the other books in the series.

This is #35 of 48 for the Mt. TBR Reading Challenge 2015. Bought in August, 2014, read November, 2015.