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why, because our guestis the New York Times multiple bestseller and winner of over 20 writing awardsRhys Bowen with her latest Royal Spyness book Love and Death Among theCheetahs.
Our guest originally wrote children’s and young adult booksusing her married name, before she turned to writing mysteries using her penname Rhys Bowen. She set her Constable Evans series in North Wales near theMount Snowdon where she had spent many vacations in her childhood. Aftervisiting Ellis Island the created the spunky Irish lass Molly Murphy whosefirst book, “Murphy’s Law”, won an Agatha Best Novel award.
Rhys created a second heroine named Lady Georgiana as partof the Her Royal Spyness series. She draws from her life in England to writethe series in whichGeorgiana is distantly an heir to the British throne but isflat broke, and trying to make her way through The Great Depression. The serieswas a bestseller and “Naught In Nice” won an Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery.
In Love and Death Among the Cheetahs, just married Georginanew husband surprises her by announcing they are going to spend severalhoneymoon weeks in far off Kenya.
Hostedby Gil Mansergh, Word By Word – Conversations with Writers is heard every secondSunday at 4:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming@ norcalpublicmedia.org / On-demandwith the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!
(Photo: Janet Quin-Harkin is anauthor best known for her mystery novels for adults written under the name RhysBowen – Courtesy of the author)
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