The Evan Evans series is currently being reissued in the U.K. She wrote ten books in the series, including the Edgar nominee Evan’s Gate.

Those childhood experiences colored her first mystery series, about Constable Evans in the mountains of Snowdonia. Her latest stand-alone, Where the Sky Begins, was published in 2022.Īs a child, Rhys spent time with relatives in Wales.

They have enjoyed impressive sales world-wide and brought Rhys many new readers. Her most recent achievement has been the big historical stand-alone novels, Above the Bay of Angels, In Farleigh Field, The Victory Garden, and The Tuscan Child. It was also voted one of Goodreads’ top-10 cozy mysteries. The series received the Readers’ Choice Award for favorite mystery series and Rhys was nominated for career achievement. Three books in the series have won the Agatha Award for best historical mystery. The sixteenth book in the series, Peril in Paris, will be published in November 2022. 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, with cousins with silly nicknames, family ghosts and stately homes. These books are lighter and funnier than Molly’s adventures. She’s 35th in line to the throne of England, but she’s flat broke and struggling to survive in the Great Depression. Then there is Lady Georgie, Rhys’s latest, and very popular, heroine. There are 18 books so far in this series, plus three Kindle stories, The Amersham Rubies, Through the Window and The Face in the Mirror-a great way to introduce new readers to Molly’s spunky personality. 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. They have been translated into twenty-two languages, including Chinese and Arabic. Her books have been nominated for every major mystery award and she has won twenty of them to date.

Rhys was born in Bath, England, and educated at London University, but now divides her time between California and Arizona. The Tuscan Child has sold over half a million copies to date. 2021’s The Venice Sketchbook was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel of the Year. In Farleigh Field was nominated for the Edgar Award, and won the Agatha Award for best historical mystery as well as the Macavity and Bruce Alexander Memorial Awards. Rhys Bowen is the New York Times bestselling author of two historical mystery series as well as the #1 Kindle bestseller In Farleigh Field and the international bestsellers The Venice Sketchbook, The Victory Garden, Above the Bay of Angels and The Tuscan Child.

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