2011 Naughty in Nice – Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel.2009 'A Royal Pain - Macavity Award Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel.2008 'Please Watch Your Step' - Macavity Award for best short story.2007 'Oh Danny Boy' - Macavity Award Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel.2004 'Doppelganger' – finalist, Anthony Award for best short story.2002 Death of Riley – finalist, Agatha Award for Best Novel.2001 Murphy's Law – Agatha Award for Best Novel.

2000 'The Seal of the Confessional' – finalist, Agatha and Anthony Awards.

Love and Death Among the Cheetahs (2019) Īnthologies and collections Anthology or Collection.

Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding (2018).

On Her Majesty’s Frightfully Secret Service (2017).

Love potion ( Avon Flare, 1999), Enchanted Hearts 4, LCCN 98-94951.

Torn apart (Bantam, 1999), Love Stories 18.

Who do you love? (Bantam, 1996), Love Stories 13.

The boy next door (Bantam, 1995), Love Stories 4.

My Best Enemy (Bantam, 1987), Sweet Dreams Romance.

Helpful Hattie ( Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 58 pp., ill.

Ten-boy summer ( Bantam Books, 1982), Sweet Dreams Romance.

Magic Growing Powder (Parents, 1980), p.b.

Septimus Bean and his Amazing Machine (Parents, 1979), p.b.

Benjamin's Balloon ( Parents Magazine, 1978), p.b.

Peter Penny's Dance ( Dial Press, 1976), picture book illustrated by Anita Lobel.

She now divides her time between Marin County, California, and Arizona. She moved to the United States when she married John Quin-Harkin. Quin-Harkin graduated from the University of London in 1963. She is also author of the Boyfriend Club series for young adults featuring four freshmen girls in Alta Mesa High School (Arizona): Roni, Ginger, Justine, and Karen. She has written three series under this name: one featuring British aristocrat Lady Georgiana ('Georgie') in 1930s England one featuring Irish immigrant Molly Murphy working as a private detective in early 1900s New York City and one featuring a Welsh police constable named Evan Evans. In the 1990s Quin-Harkin began writing mystery novels for adults under the name Rhys Bowen. In 1981, she wrote one of the first six books with which Bantam launched the Sweet Dreams series.

She also worked as a drama teacher and a dance teacher. Janet Quin-Harkin (born 24 September 1941, Bath, Somerset ) is an author best known for her mystery novels for adults written under the name Rhys Bowen.īefore she began writing novels, Quin-Harkin worked in the drama department of the British Broadcasting Corporation in London and, later, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, Australia.

The Amersham Rubies by Rhys Bowen