Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during August 2015 is …
Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowen, a Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, Royal Spyness Mystery (9th in series)
Publisher: Berkley
While my beau Darcy is off on a mysterious mission, I am once again caught between my high birth and empty purse. I am therefore relieved to receive a new assignment from the Queen — especially one that includes lodging. The King's youngest son, George, is to wed Princess Marina of Greece, and I shall be her companion at the supposedly haunted Kensington Palace.
My duties are simple: help Marina acclimate to English life, show her the best of London and, above all, dispel any rumors about George's libertine history. Perhaps that last bit isn't so simple.
George is known for his many affairs with women as well as men — including the great songwriter Noel Coward. But things truly get complicated when I search 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.
Nothing spoils a royal wedding more than murder, and the Queen wants the whole matter hushed. But as the investigation unfolds — and Darcy, as always, turns up in the most unlikely of places — the investigation brings us precariously close to the prince himself.
— Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowen
For a list of more new hardcover titles to be published this month, visit our New Mysteries page for August 2015. For new paperback mysteries, visit The Mystery Bookshelf where a selection of August 2015 mysteries, novels of suspense, and thrillers are shelved.
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