Above the Bay of Angels

A Novel

De: Rhys Bowen

Narrado por: Gemma Dawson

"...Sweeping and intimate, warm and gripping. I loved it!" (Louise Penny, number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels)

A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria’s royal kitchen, setting off a suspenseful historical mystery by the New York Times best-selling author of The Tuscan Child and The Victory Garden.

Isabella Waverly only means to comfort the woman felled on a London street. In her final dying moments, she thrusts a letter into Bella’s hand. It’s an offer of employment in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace, and everything the budding young chef desperately wants: an escape from the constrictions of her life as a lowly servant. In the stranger’s stead, Bella can spread her wings.

Arriving as Helen Barton from Yorkshire, she pursues her passion for creating culinary delights, served to the delighted Queen Victoria herself. Best of all, she’s been chosen to accompany the queen to Nice. What fortune! Until the threat of blackmail shadows Bella to the Riviera, and a member of the queen’s retinue falls ill and dies.

Having prepared the royal guest’s last meal, Bella is suspected of the poisonous crime. An investigation is sure to follow. Her charade will be over. And her new life will come crashing down - if it doesn’t send her to the gallows.

©2020 Janet Quin-Harkin, writing as Rhys Bowen (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

5 Star Book!

I loved this book! Great book and performance. I want to read other titles by this author. I love historical fiction, and this was a fun story! It has a little bit of everything: historical setting, royalty, blackmail, murder, love story, female main character, triumph over adversity, food and lots of fun elements of a good story. I highly recommend it. It's nice to read a book that relies on good writing rather than crude language and sex.

Rhys Bowen never disappoints

Good read with nice context of Victorian-era food, culture, & history. Novel approach. Sometimes things stretch believability, but likeable characters & interesting plot make me overlook that.

Rhys Bowen delivers!!

Delightful novel!
Well written with Author Rhys Bowen flare of proper girl with with beauty brains and wit with added mystery & suspense & a spark of romance.
When a girl of noble descent finds herself working in the Queens kitchen she becomes entangled in a web of secrets that will expose her own!
A Princesses secret -A dead royal -
A blackmailer & The Queen!
This is a gentle read that keeps you turning the page!

a good read

this book was long but not boring at all it held my attention to the end the plot was good the narrator was good too

Perfectly delightful story

This was one of the most satisfying stories I've ever read. It is the perfect combination of drama and lightness, entertainment and history. One of Bowen's best, in my opinion.