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The Case of the Missing Madonna

The Case of the Missing Madonna
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Cannes, Eze, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier unearths a shocking wartime secret in this stylish Cannes-based mystery series. Brother Robert from the abbey on St Honorat, a picturesque island off the French coast, has requested Patrick de Courvoisier’s help in locating...

The Celtic Prince

The Celtic Prince
  • Author(s): Suellen Ocean
  • Location(s): England, France, Jerusalem, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Medieval

Females are wildly available to Jonathan, after all, he’s the prince. But when a strange girl, Ellen, wanders into his forest, he follows his instincts and his heart. However, she’s left behind an unfinished past and a man who...

The Chanel Sisters

The Chanel Sisters
  • Author(s): Judithe Little
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th century

The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. For readers who fell in love with THE PARIS WIFE and THE AGE OF LIGHT. Gabrielle and Antoinette know they’re destined for something better. Abandoned to a convent orphanage,...

The Chestnut Roaster

The Chestnut Roaster
  • Author(s): Eve McDonnell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1887

From the acclaimed author of Elsetime, shortlisted for the Awesome Book Award, a magical and thrilling adventure. “Starting on All Fools Day, twelve years ago, I remember everything. EVERYTHING. That was a wet Saturday, and that was the day...

The Chosen Maiden

The Chosen Maiden
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Monte Carlo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Based on the famous dance siblings: Vaslav Nijinsky and his brilliant sister Bronislava (Bronia) this is a story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with...

The City of Tears

The City of Tears
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): France, Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th century

Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse’s The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic in The Burning Chambers series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown. June 1572:...

The Clockwork Girl

The Clockwork Girl
  • Author(s): Anna Mazzola
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Paris, 1750. In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. Madeleine is hiding a dark past,...

The Club Dumas

The Club Dumas
  • Author(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Location(s): Paris, Madrid, Toledo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three...

THE COCOA GIRLS

THE COCOA GIRLS
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Gateshead, 1903 – four-year old Evie’s world crumbles when her grandmother dies. Evie’s unmarried mother Margaret and Aunt Dinah discover their mother’s death has left them deeply in debt to their vicious aunt. She orders the sisters into service...

The Coming Darkness

The Coming Darkness
  • Author(s): Greg Mosse
  • Location(s): North Africa, Paris
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller

A thrilling debut that has been likened to John Le Carré and Raymond Chandler… Paris, 2037. Alexandre Lamarque of the French external security service is hunting for eco-terrorists. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust...

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