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REVIEW: The Birth of Blue Satan by Patricia Wynn

Dear Mrs Wynn,

The Birth of Blue Satan: Featuring Blue Satan and Mrs. Kean (Blue Satan Mystery series)After having written about traditional 10 regencies, you’ve now started a new historical series set in 1715 England in which the politics and society of the day play a prominent role. I’m going to steal a review
done at amazon.com:

“Pat Wynn is a proven master at the Regency mystery genre. Her newest novel set in the era of Georgian England — when gentlemen settled their quarrels with swords and the women have secrets of their own. In The Birth Of Blue Satan, it is 1715 and George I has ascended the British throne, while displaced James Stuart lives exiled in France. Stuart’s supporters scheme to retake the crown and Gideon Viscount St. Mars returns from a three-year Grand Tour to discover that his father is a suspected Jacobite who has been banned from the Court. On the brink of marriage, Gideon is accused of murder and with no friends at Court must choose to escape or be hanged. Assuming the disguise of the highwayman Blue Satan (and with …