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The Barcelona Connection

The Barcelona Connection
  • Author(s): Tim Parfitt
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Girona (Gerona), Nimes
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Connections Book 1) EVERY CRIME SCENE IS A WORK OF ART. Benjamin Blake is no ordinary detective … Specialising in the criminal underworld of stolen and forged art, things don’t always go the right way for Benjamin. But...

The Baron Returns

The Baron Returns
  • Author(s): Graham Ley
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Napoleonic

This is the first book in the Wentworth Family saga, about a family living in the Napoleonic times who are involved in Brittany and Devon because the mother, Sempronie, comes from a Breton family and has property there. The...

The Bear and the Basque

The Bear and the Basque
  • Author(s): Michèle Callard
  • Location(s): French Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): present time

When Chloe’s grandfather dies, she promises to scatter his ashes over a lake in the French Basque mountains where he was born. When she gets there, with Pop inside a chocolate tin, things start to go wrong. The mysterious...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

The Beekeeper’s Promise

The Beekeeper’s Promise
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): WW2 and modern

Heartbroken and hoping for a new start, Abi Howes takes a summer job in rural France at the Château Bellevue. The old château echoes with voices from the past, and soon Abi finds herself drawn to one remarkable woman’s...

The Betrayal

The Betrayal
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Paris, 1938. Twin sisters are divided by fierce loyalties and by a terrible secret. The drums of war are beating and France is poised, ready to fall. One sister is an aviatrix, the other is a socialite and they both...

The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party
  • Author(s): Laurent Mauvignier, Daniel Levin Becker (Translator)
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family’s farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and...

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...

The Black Terrorist

The Black Terrorist
  • Author(s): Tierno Monénembo
  • Location(s): Guinea, France
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

The Black Terrorist is a fictional account built around the true, extraordinary, but little-known story of Addi BA. Addi BA was born in Guinea about 1916, brought to France in the late 1930s, and became a riflemen in the...

The Blue Room

The Blue Room
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Vain, womanising Tony and passionate, manipulative Andree met eight times in eleven months in the blue room at the Hotel des Voyageurs for afternoons of abandoned love. For Tony the conversation that last time was just the casual, almost...

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