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The Burning Chambers

The Burning Chambers
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): Carcassone, Toulouse
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th century

Bringing sixteenth-century Languedoc vividly to life, Kate Mosse’s The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love and betrayal, mysteries and secrets; of war and adventure, conspiracies and divided loyalties . . . Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives...

The Caretakers

The Caretakers
  • Author(s): Amanda Bestor-Siegal
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary (2015)

In the smart Parisian suburb of Maisons-Larue, in the wake of the Paris 2015 terrorist attacks, an au pair is arrested after the sudden and suspicious death of her nine-year-old charge… The truth behind what happened is unravelled through...

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...

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