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Golden Earrings

Golden Earrings
  • Author(s): Belinda Alexandra
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1970s

Let me tell you a story…The granddaughter of Spanish refugees, who fled Barcelona after the Civil War, Paloma Batton is an attentive student of the Paris Opera Ballet, that is, until she is visited by a ghost …Leaving her...

Hidden in Paris

Hidden in Paris
  • Author(s): Corine Gantz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

In a tale of friendship, self-discovery and love, three women running away from their lives become unlikely friends in a beautiful house in the heart of Paris. Lost in France, a country she mistrusts, among French people she hardly...

Hunting and Gathering

Hunting and Gathering
  • Author(s): Anna Gavalda
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbellière is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum....

Hysteria

Hysteria
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Alexander Gregory Thrillers #2 In a beautiful world, murder is always ugly… Recently returned from his last case in Ireland, elite forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory receives a call from the French police that he...

In the Café of Lost Youth

In the Café of Lost Youth
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Four narrators, a student from a café, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother...

Intrigue in Paris

Intrigue in Paris
  • Author(s): Vee Williams Garcia
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Bluesette “Blue” Stills, a magazine editor from Washington, DC, arrives at her sassy jazz singer friend Nareen Anderson’s apartment in Paris, France, ready to start her vacation. But shock and disappointment grip her when Nareen acts strange and suddenly...

It’s not love, It’s just Paris

It’s not love, It’s just Paris
  • Author(s): Patricia Engel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Lita finds herself in Paris to continue her education. New money versus old money and love! Lita is an outsider from an originally poor background who is trying to find her way in.

Just a Little Dinner

Just a Little Dinner
  • Author(s): Cécile Tlili, Katherine Gregor (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris, Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Parisians behaving badly: a dinner party implodes in this darkly compelling tale, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Day. In tired, hot Paris at the end of August, a group of friends, who’d rather still be at the sea, meet...

Kill Shot

Kill Shot
  • Author(s): Vince Flynn
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

For months, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of the men responsible for the slaughter of 270 civilians including his own girlfriend in the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing – bullet by bullet. His next...

Lessons in French

Lessons in French
  • Author(s): Hilary Reyl
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1980s

First love: first heartbreak. First job: first nightmare boss. A seductive coming-of-age tale set in the most romantic city on earth. Fresh out of university and determined to dream big, Kate can hardly believe her luck when she lands...

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