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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t start with Devil’s Cub.  It will be much better if you read the one about the Duke of Avon first.  Blanking on the name.  Then you have to read the one with about Judith and her brother Peregrine.  Then the Waterloo one.  They have intertwining characters!  Sorry I forget the titles.

I love Georgette Heyer and have read them all many times.  I agree Frederica is my favorite.[/quote]

These are the only ones that really interleave, OP.  And honestly you can read them in any order — I read devil’s cub before any of the others in this grouping and it’s still one of my favourites.  But if you want to be introduced to the characters for call backs you want to read:

These Old Shades
Devil’s Cub
Regency Buck
The Spanish Bride
An Infamous Army

The mysteries likewise can be read in any order but there’s some small fun in reading them in the order they were published as the police characters recur in several of them and they are also set contemporary to when she wrote them so ranging from the the 1930s to 1950s.  I would recommend skipping Penhallow though.  She didn’t want to write it (forced by a publishing contract) and I feel like it shows as it’s the least positive of all her books imo.[/quote]

PP here…thank you for filling in the gaps of my memory!  And yes, forgot about The Spanish Bride.  It and An Infamous Army have a lot of historical information as well (about the Peninsular War and Waterloo).  Harry Smith and Juana from the Spanish Bride were real people, as were many of the people in An Infamous Army.[/quote]

The Spanish Bride is one of my favorites although I have been known, depending on mood, to skim the military history and focus on the romance or vice versa.

Another less generally popular one that I particularly like is A Civil Contract.  Almost a deconstruction of the genre yet still somehow very sweet.[/quote]

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