Never one to give up, Georgie insists they investigate and begins to uncover some rather startling information about the dead man. Georgie quickly realizes Darcy thinks his father is guilty, and his father doesn’t remember what happened. Once there, she jumps into the investigation, and is soon joined by the Princess Zamanska.
Georgie quickly decides to head off to Ireland to help Darcy, despite his objections. At an odd dinner party hosted by the Princess, Georgie runs into her cousin David (the future Edward VIII) and the awful Mrs.
Soon after she returns to London, Georgie meets the wealthy Princess Zamanska who has a mysterious connection to Darcy. Over the series we’ve been introduced to a number of often over-the-top characters – both real and fictional – that surround Georgie, and this book is no exception. Darcy refuses, and breaks up with Georgie, not wanting the scandal to taint her. Georgie pleads to go with him (after all, she has a lot of experience solving murder mysteries). Even though Darcy is estranged from his father, he heads off to Ireland to help. After staying in a horrible inn, Darcy reads in a newspaper that his father has been arrested for the murder of the wealthy American who bought the family castle.
Nothing is ever straightforward in Georgie’s world, and instead of getting married, they get caught in a snowstorm. He decides they can elope, have sex, not tell anyone they’re married, and then do the official paperwork to make everything legal in England. Because of her position in the line of succession, Georgie would have to jump through several legal hoops to officially marry Darcy, because even though Darcy will eventually inherit a title from his father, it’s an Irish title, and he is a Roman Catholic. Georgie thinks they’re going somewhere for a romantic dinner or to finally have sex but Darcy surprises her and says they’re going to elope to Gretna Green.
Most of the books I’ve read in the series land somewhere in the B or C range, and Crowned and Dangerous is one of my favorites so far.Īs the book opens, Georgie and her longstanding beau Darcy O’Mara are heading out of London. The series is primarily set in England between the World Wars and while often touching on darker world events, falls clearly on the side of a light mystery series with numerous touches of humor. This is the tenth entry in the author’s Royal Spyness series, featuring Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line to the British throne.
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