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The Devil’s Banker

The Devil’s Banker
  • Author(s): Edward Subut
  • Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Read the riveting story of the man who, almost single-handedly, crippled ISIS in 2019! Unbeknownst to all but a few, CIA analyst John Quirston, a Marine veteran maimed in an explosion at the Baghdad morgue, stubbornly aches towards his...

The Black Swan of Paris

The Black Swan of Paris
  • Author(s): Karen Robards
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, 1944 Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, her position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian...

Every Spy a Traitor

Every Spy a Traitor
  • Author(s): Alex Gerlis
  • Location(s): London, Germany, Moscow, Paris
  • Genre(s): Espionage
  • Era(s): late 1930s

Trust no one. Suspect everyone. It’s 1937. Fear and suspicion stalk the Continent. A million have died in Stalin’s Great Purge and the Nazi terror grips Germany. But British intelligence is still trying to work out who the enemy...

Under a Riviera Moon

Under a Riviera Moon
  • Author(s): Helen McGinn
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemorary

When a heartsick Maggie is sent on an errand by her mother to Cannes, she is keen to get it over with as quickly as possible. She has been tasked with collecting a treasured box of photos from her...

The Eater Guide to PARIS (Eater City Guide)

The Eater Guide to PARIS (Eater City Guide)
  • Author(s): Eater, Lindsey Tramuta
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink
  • Era(s): 2020s

The Eater Guide to Paris is your go-to source for getting immersed in Paris’ iconic dining culture. Offering context on how the local scene has been shaped by history, immigration, agriculture, and tradition, this guide offers vibrant, incomparable insight...

Diana In Love

Diana In Love
  • Author(s): Jen Besser, Shana Fest
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second novel in the Dirty Diana trilogy – a story of desire within marriage from the stars of the hit feminist erotic podcast Dirty Diana … Diana has her freedom – isn’t that what she wanted? After years...

The Lantern’s Dance

The Lantern’s Dance
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Nimes, Paris, The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

‘Deftly interlacing present and past, King offers further fascinating insights into Holmes’s family while also delivering an intriguing mystery’- Washington Post September, 1925. After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending time...

The Paris Express

The Paris Express
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1895

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room and The Pull of The Stars, Emma Donoghue takes readers on a thrilling ride through a simmering turn-of-the-century Paris on the edge of a dazzling future. Autumn, 1895. Paris is as...

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers

The Secret Life Of Sunflowers
  • Author(s): Marta Molnar, Dana Marton (Translator)
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1800s

When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn’t her grandmother’s. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van...

Last Twilight in Paris

Last Twilight in Paris
  • Author(s): Pam Jenoff
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s looking back

A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to...

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