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Stolen Summer

Stolen Summer
  • Author(s): Jane Dunning
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You’re invited to spend summer on the French Riviera with Richard, Helen and the Ferguson family. The sequel to Thirty-five minutes from St Tropez is a blend of fear and fun, love and disappointments, country life and glamorous Monaco,...

Storm

Storm
  • Author(s): Stephanie Merritt
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“The most delicious book. Full of twists, turns and moving, realistic reveals” – Bestselling author Marian Keyes A beautiful French chateau Jo Lawless is still grieving her husband when his oldest friends invite her to a weekend house party...

Strangled in Paris

Strangled in Paris
  • Author(s): Claude Izner
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

Why would anyone strangle a humble seamstress with no known enemies? When newly-married bookseller Victor Legris is asked to solve the murder of Louise Fontaine in the abattoir district of La Villette, he is initially baffled by the case....

Striptease

Striptease
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Celita is a stripper at the Monico, a nightclub in Cannes. She is also the long-standing mistress of Monsieur Leon, the owner of the Monico. She has enjoyed her struggle to win him away from his wife, Madame Florence,...

Summer at the French Olive Grove

Summer at the French Olive Grove
  • Author(s): Sophie Claire
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Filmmaker Lily’s life is all about work and adventure. So when she suffers an accident on her travels and finds herself recuperating in the quiet French seaside village where she spent her childhood, she can’t wait to escape. Not...

Summer in Provence

Summer in Provence
  • Author(s): Lucy Coleman
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When married couple Fern and Aiden have a windfall, their reactions could not be more different. While Fern is content to pay off their mortgage and build a nest egg before starting a family, her husband is set on...

Summer in San Remo

Summer in San Remo
  • Author(s): Evonne Wareham
  • Location(s): Bath, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anything could happen when you spend summer in San Remo … Running her busy concierge service usually keeps Cassie Travers fully occupied. But when a new client offers her the strangest commission she’s ever handled she suddenly finds herself...

Summer of Reckoning

Summer of Reckoning
  • Author(s): Marion Brunet
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Winner of the prestigious French mystery prize 2018 Grand Prix de Littérature policière. A psychological thriller set in the Luberon, a touristic French region that evokes holidays in magnificent pool-adorned villas. For those who live there year-round, it often...

Summer on the French Riviera

Summer on the French Riviera
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gabriella Jacques, is happy to be back in her childhood home, Villa Espoir in the South of France ready to embrace fresh experiences with friends new and old and to heal some deep family scars. Recently widowed Harriet Rogers,...

Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored

Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored
  • Author(s): Philippe Georget, Steven Rendall (translator)
  • Location(s): Perpignan, The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Modern

#worldnoir It’s the middle of a long hot summer on the French Mediterranean shore and the town is full of tourists. Two tired cops who are being slowly devoured by dull routine and family worries, deal with the day’s...

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