Georgie is back again-this time, she is finally married, back from her eventful honeymoon, and in her new home. But a friend shows up, and she's off on another adventure. Long time readers may have wondered if she would "settle down" but that is not the case. A dead body is found, and her friend looks like the culprit. Can Georgie solve the mystery in time? Find out in the latest book in the Royal Spyness series, which takes some of its inspiration from "Rebecca".

4 out of 5 Stars - If you ask, I'll tell you to read it.

The Last Mrs. Summers (Royal Spyness #14) is yet another in a series of light-hearted mysteries set in the 1930s. Lady Georgiana Rannoch O'Mara returns from her honeymoon and finds herself with little to do at her estate after her husband goes off to parts unknown for a secret mission.

Lady Georgie decides to go with her friend Belinda to visit a cottage that Belinda's grandmother has left her in her will. Belinda and Georgie spend the night in the small, run down cottage, but they're unimpressed. In the morning, they decide to find a local hotel to stay in while Belinda finds a local workman to fix up the cottage. As they're in town, they meet up with Rose. Rose is the daughter of Belinda's late-grandmother's cook, but now she's Mrs Summers, the second wife of Tony Summers. Rose, Tony, and Belinda all were part of a group of friends in their childhood.

As Belinda and Georgie arrive at the estate on the cliffs, they begin to have an uneasy feeling (beyond just not really wanting to be there). Mrs Mannering, the housekeeper, seems to always be around and hovering. She has been with the household since the first Mrs Summers was a child. Rose confides in Belinda and Georgie that she things her husband may have killed his first wife, and she is scared for her safety.

Tony and Belinda have a little history, but Belinda wants nothing to do with a married man. When Tony tries to start something, Belinda immediately asks him to leave her room. She then goes to take a bath and returns to a murdered body in her bed!

The solving of the mystery seemed a little far fetched in many ways, but it wrapped up nicely in the end.

The book ended quite abruptly, and I couldn't figure out why my Kindle wouldn't turn the page. Then I realized I was at 100% and the book was over.

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for the ARC

I really enjoyed this installment of the series. I loved the ties to Rebecca and liked watching for them, as Rebecca is one of my favorite books. We don't get much of Darcy in this book, leaving Georgie to solve the mystery.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for my eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I am a fan of the Her Royal Spyness series and enjoyed this latest addition which features Lady Georgiana and her bestie, Belinda, on a romp to Cornwall to visit a cottage recently inherited by Belinda. I found this novel to be a return to the elements of the series that I have found appealing, namely being more of a cozy mystery and less of a Harelequin romance. That is to say, more Georgiana sleuthing and less kanoodling with Darcy. I wasn't too keen on the last installment, Love and Death Among the Cheetahs, which I felt crossed the line into some non-cozy topics of spouse swapping and drug use. It was relief to find Rhys Bowen returning to the cozy mystery style with gothic elements, homespun locales, and a good old fashioned British mystery. I recommend this to other fans of the series or those who just love a cozy British mystery.

Bowen follows her tried and true formula in the latest Royal Spyness mystery and the result is a few hours of light entertainment for the reader.

Again Darcy disappears on "government business" and a bored Lady Georgiana agrees to drive to Cornwall with her friend Belinda to check out a property Belinda just inherited. The cottage is uninhabitable but Belinda runs into an acquaintance who invites them to stay, a murder occurs, Belinda is accused, Georgiana investigates, and a disguised Darcy appears at the crucial moment to rescue her.

It's a quick and uncomplicated read even though the villain is painfully obvious from the moment the murder occurs.

Rhys Bowen does it again with another thoroughly delightful and engrossing installment of her Lady Georgianna mystery series. The characters and setting is , as always impeccably done. I loved the Cornwall setting! One of my favorite places to read about, the description of the landscape jumped off the page and was really the star of the show. I enjoyed that she used real towns and geography that I could look up and see for myself. I found the use of gothic tropes so much fun and the creepy du Maurier vibes infused the whole book and I think I may have noticed a few playful nods to Poldark as well. She did the series a world of service by allowing side characters like Belinda and Queenie to grow and learn from their mistakes just like she's done for the main characters and and remain stock caricatures as foils for Georgianna and I find myself wanting to know and see them more in the stories. I like that I can recommend these books to people who haven't read any other books in the series. This is definitely a great entry point for newbies with its homage to Rebecca and such a strong setting and mystery. I can't wait for this book to come out so that i can tell people to go out read it!

Rhys Bowen riffs on Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca" by sending Georgiana and her BFF Belinda to Cornwall, to a Manderley-like creepy house complete with a Mrs. Danvers-like housekeeper, where The Last Mrs. Summers is dead. It is a standard light mystery, with no spying angle this time for the main character. The spying thing has been petering out for a couple of books now along with the Royal thing.

This 14th installment in the Her Royal Spyness series is fairly cute, dead predictable, and solidly mediocre. As a "Rebecca" fan I got all the references, but perhaps a reader who never heard of "Rebecca" would enjoy it more than I did. For that matter, it might be beneficial to be unfamiliar with the first 13 books in the series. Posh fashion designer Belinda must undergo a personality transplant to keep the whole plotline from being preposterous. The book features very little Darcy and almost no Queenie (my favorite character in the series). The wit that has made the series so much fun is all but absent. This is partly due to the replacement of Queenie and Darcy with borrowed characters from "Rebecca": Rose, the new Mrs. Summers; Tony, Mr. Summers; and Mrs. Mannering ("Manny"). Even more of the wit is lost due to the drastic changes in Belinda which alter, for the worse, the Georgiana-Belinda dynamic. A love interest for Belinda is tossed into the mix, but since we are largely following someone else's plotline, there isn't any time to develop his character. Suffice it to say anyone will do, 14 novels in, for the once-posh Belinda.

Read this only if you're in the mood for pure derivative fluff. Since I rarely am, I won't be continuing with the series.

I received an advanced readers copy of this book from the publisher and Netgalley and was encouraged to submit a review.

I received this ARC from Net Galley

I have read all the previous books in this series and what initially drew me in was Georgie's royal connections. This is one of the first books in the series where Georgie doesn't actually have anything to do with them since her marriage to Darcy. That being said, I still enjoyed the book a lot even without the Royal angle and will happily keep reading this series until it's conclusion.

I have been a big fan of Rhys Bowen's Royal Spyness series since the beginning, so I was excited to get an early read of the newest book The Last Mrs. Summers.

Recently married Georgie travels to Cornwall with her friend Belinda, who has just inherited a cottage. They end up running into Belinda's childhood friend Rose who owns a mansion and they stay there. Along the way, they meet a creepy housekeeper and several other characters and Belinda finds herself in trouble, of course, Georgie sets out to solve the murder and clear Belinda's name.

As always I enjoyed reading Georgie's adventures and I loved the picturesque setting of Cornwall, Also the book was supposedly inspired by Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca, so though the plot and all is different it does have a bit of a gothic scenario that I really enjoyed.

I did find that this book was a bit predictable, but it definitely didn't stop me from enjoying the story

I enjoyed this one although it reminded me a lot of another book I read recently (and I'm not talking about Rebecca). The murderer was kind of obvious but I enjoyed Georgie and Belinda's adventure. Four stars. This series is still fun!

Georgie, of Her Royal Spyness fame, travels to Cornwall with her friend Belinda, who has inherited a cottage there from her late grandmother.

They meet Rose, an old childhood acquaintance of Belinda's, who invites them to stay at her mansion, where Rose lives in lonely splendor, waiting for her husband Tony to return from his business travels.

The author says this book is loosely based on DuMaurier's Rebecca, but the plot is different enough to make it interesting. There is a spooky and threatening housekeeper who runs things efficiently, as in Rebecca, and Rose seems out of her comfort zone in the stately mansion, as did the heroine of DuMaurier's novel. However, there is enough difference to make the mystery novel suspenseful enough to keep your interest. There is a murder, for one.

I give this a five for entertainment and originality in spinning the plot of Rebecca into a new weave!

Lady Georgianna and Belinda head to Cornwall to check out Belinda's inheritance. The offer of lodging in a grand country estate goes horribly wrong when Belinda is arrested for murder and Darcy is already on an assignment. Georgie vows to solve the murder and free her friend. From page one you will not want to put this book down!

I'm always excited when a new Rhys Bowen book is published. I'm happy to say that through NetGalley and the publisher Berkeley Publishing group I was able to obtain a prepub copy of "The Last Mrs. Summer." Ms. Bowen's books are always a delight to read, even if sometimes the mystery is not that enthralling. She mixes enough humor and character in her books that they're always a pleasure to read.
Lady Georgiana is recently married to Darcy O'Mara and while he is out of town on one of his secret jobs, Georgie & her best friend Belinda go on their own adventure. One of the really fun parts of reading this book is that you may find it reminding you of a book by another author, a classic from earlier days. So sit back and follow Lady Georgie & her friend Belinda on their adventure in Cornwall.

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An entertaining nod to Gothic novels, empty moors, and crashing ses. Georgiana seems back to her old and after a rough, rather whiny honeymoon in Kenya. Yay!

I loved this new installment in the Royal Spyness series. I wasn't that thrilled about the one right before this (Love and Death among the Cheetahs), so I'm happy to see that the series still works. Darcy can sometimes be a bit of a wet blanket when Georgie is investigating, so it works well for her to be on her own here with Belinda. The gothic scenario worked really well, and the setting in Cornwall was very atmospheric. My only complaint is that the solution was not a surprise at all, and so it wasn't as satisfying as usual. My other complaint is that it's going to be a good long time until there's a new one.

I always look forward to a new Royal Spyness mystery, but for me The Last Mrs. Summers was just okay.

Georgie gave Belinda bad advice during the aftermath of the murder and I just didn’t think it was in her character to encourage a lie.

The suspect was obvious. This is not something that disqualifies a mystery for me, but the suspect was never on anyone’s radar and that is usually not the case with these mysteries.

I have always disliked the Queenie character and was hoping Rhys Bowen would leave her at Darcy’s relatives in Ireland. Georgie is not her best self around Queenie. Georgie will chastise her, then defend her in the same breath. This dynamic has run its course for me.

The energy is always better when Georgie and Darcy are together. I hope the next book has them working as a team again. I keep thinking that it’s 1935, the war is coming, and they need to make plans!

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for the ARC

A new Her Royal Spyness mystery is always a treat. I couldn't tell where this one was going, so it was a lot of fun to travel along with Georgie and her friend Belinda as they solved another mystery.

*Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing an e-galley in exchange for an honest review.

This new installment of lady Georgie found her married to Darcy and picking up where the last book left off. I loved how that he could continue to work for the government and she supported that! I love her independence and individuality. This book centers around Belinda and dredges you past events from her childhood that lead to revenge and murder-with Belinda being accused. Georgie shows us that she can solve this murder and take care of herself -with only a small cameo of help from Darcy!