58. Malice at the Palace
Rating: ☆☆1/2
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Author: Rhys Bowen
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery
304 pages, published August 4, 2015
Reading Format: E-Book on Overdrive
Summary
Malice at the Palace follows the travails of Lady Georgiana Rannoch, a temporarily broke girl about London in the 1930’s who is thirty-fifth in line for the British throne. While her beloved Darcy is off on a mysterious mission, Georgiana receives a new assignment from the Queen. The King’s youngest son George is to wed Princess Marina of Greece and Georgiana is to be her companion at the supposedly haunted Kensington Palace. Things get complicated when Georgiana searches the Palace for a supposed ghost only to encounter an actual dead person, a society beauty said to have been one of Prince George’s mistresses. After Darcy turns up, the investigation brings Georgiana and Darcy precariously close to the prince himself.
My Take
I spent three weeks in Europe this summer on an amazing Girls’ Trip and needed some reading material for the flight over that I could read on my iPad. Our first stop was London so I scanned Overdrive looking for available books that took place in that locale. Malice at the Palace was available, was set in 1930’s London, and since I hadn’t read a mystery in a long time, I decided to give it a shot. The book is fine, the characters likeable enough, but it was not a page turner as every good mystery should be. For that reason, it merits ☆☆1/2 from me.
