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Little Coquette (Regency Romantic Mysteries)

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If you like one Joan Smith book, you will probably like them all. This is a representative sample of the genre although there is a bit of a who dun it to this book that is a bit unusual. This book like her others is a sweet romances, no sex, with a spunky heroine who is on a mission of some kind, and although they are sometimes called regencies, there are many social customs that are described in her books that would never have been acceptable in the early 1800s.

In this book the main character, who by the way is not in any way a flirt so the book is ill-named, travels to London with a single gentleman, a neighbor, to determine the identity of drowned woman who they suspect is the paramour of her father. Of course in reality, no proper young woman would EVER be allowed or would ever even THINK of getting into a closed carriage to travel evn 2 miles with a man not her father or brother/cousin, nor would a gentleman EVER think of doing such a thing. Many things like this happen in the novel, so if you are a purist, you should avoid this book, however the story moves along quickly and there is a happy ending...which is what those of us who read these books are looking for, yes? I actually read this as a Kindle edition, glad to see so many of Joan Smith's books are available via Kindle.