A fun historical with a bastard child of a politician who grows into a spy for her father and is thrown into intrigue with a titled gentleman to stop a murder.

What distracted me: There was some inconsistency in Fantine's character, from the beginning where she remarks how she knows Spanish, and yet when called upon to learn a foreign language (French) is concerned with applying herself. Her spoken English jumps back and forth between cockney and cultured on a whim. She went to a proper school, but dropped out, so how did she learn to fit in so well? If she wasn't willing to apply herself, seems as if she wouldn't have made an effort to mimic her roles so well.

What I liked: There was plenty of humor with Fantine and Chadwick while they tested each other's abilities to solve the crime. Fantine's character was developed nicely, from street rat with no desire to be respectable to wanting to be part of the swells.

Overall, I enjoyed the read.