Those childhood experiences colored her first mystery series, about Constable Evans in the mountains of Snowdonia. Our print magazine for members The Historical Novels Review has published reviews of 20,000+ historical fiction books. They poke gentle fun at the British class system-about which Rhys knows a lot, having married into an upper class family rather like Georgie's.Īs a child Rhys spent time with relatives in Wales. These books are lighter and funnier than Molly's adventures. Then there is Lady Georgie, She's 35th in line to the throne of England, but she's flat broke and struggling to survive in the Great Depression. There are 19 books so far in this series plus three Kindle stories, Rhys’s daughter, Clare Broyles, now cowrites the series with her These books are multi-layered, complex stories with a strong sense of time and place and have won many awards including Agatha and Anthony. The Molly Murphy mysteries feature an Irish immigrant woman in turn-of-the-century New York City. She currently writes two historical mystery series, each very different in tone. Her books have been nominated for every major mystery award and she has won twenty of them to date, including five Agathas. Rhys was born in Bath, England and educated at London University but now divides her time between California and Arizona. Rhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of two historical mystery series as well as several internationally bestselling historical novels, two of which were nominated for Edgar Award
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