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Murder on the Champ de Mars

Murder on the Champ de Mars
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Paris, April 1999: Aimée Leduc has her work cut out for her—running her detective agency and fighting off sleep-deprivation as she tries to be a good single mother to her new bébé. The last thing she has time for now...

Murder on the Ile St-Louis

Murder on the Ile St-Louis
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s

Aimee is alerted to a foundling, with whom she develops an attachment. Aimee is a sometime detective, in the backgroun is also her pain surrounding her own childhood experiences.

My Life in France

My Life in France
  • Author(s): Julia Child
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s

When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, a ‘six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian’, she spoke barely a few words of French, and didn’t know the first thing about cooking. ‘What’s a shallot?’ she asked her husband...

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
  • Author(s): Douglas Cowie
  • Location(s): Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/50s

Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...

Ominous: Borders: Coffee

Ominous: Borders: Coffee
  • Author(s): Peter Standish Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in PARIS, this thriller surges ominously through the psyche of modern Europe. Conflict is rife: danger is everywhere. You will be tempted to trawl through Paris, to drink in the bars, or smoke on dark street corners. Be...

Paris

Paris
  • Author(s): Edward Rutherfurd
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Various

City of love. City of splendour. City of terror. City of dreams.Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that...

Paris After the Liberation: 1944 – 1949

Paris After the Liberation: 1944 – 1949
  • Author(s): Anthony Beevor
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

This covers the post war period, well researched and, as always with Beevor, an intelligent and well reserached book.

Paris in Love

Paris in Love
  • Author(s): Eloisa James
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 2000s

In 2009, New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James took a leap that many people dream about: she sold her house, took a sabbatical from her job as a Shakespeare professor, and moved her family to Paris. Paris in...

Paris in the Dark

Paris in the Dark
  • Author(s): Robert Olen Butler
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW1

Autumn 1915. The First World War is raging across Europe. Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches, although that hasn’t stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher Marlowe ‘Kit’...

Paris Letters

Paris Letters
  • Author(s): Janice MacLeod
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

It all begin with this question: how much money does it take to quit your job? Despite having achieved her career goals in LA, Janice Macleod was on the verge of burnout, and she had to find an escape....

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