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The Company She Keeps

The Company She Keeps
  • Author(s): Diana R Chambers
  • Location(s): Iran, Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

A young southern woman, Evelyn-also known as “E”-is confronted by a CIA officer, Nick, who says her mysterious lover is being investigated as a foreign mole. Shocked, she agrees to cooperate, secretly. E thus enters the international world of...

The Coral Thief

The Coral Thief
  • Author(s): Rebecca Stott
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 19th Century

July 1815, Daniel Connor arrives by mail coach in Paris and his affair with a beautiful coral thief. In his luggage are three rare fossils and the bones of a mammoth. Napoleon is already in exile…this is post revolutionary...

The da Vinci Code

The da Vinci Code
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): England, Paris, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A murder in the silent after-hours halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of...

The Dark Angel

The Dark Angel
  • Author(s): Dominique Sylvain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

On the one hand, there’s Lola. A grumpy retired policewoman who cannot get by without her two best friends: red wine and jigsaw puzzles. On the other, there’s Ingrid, an American in love with Paris. By day she gives...

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal
  • Author(s): Frederick Forsyth
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A....

The Dress Thief

The Dress Thief
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Alix Gower has a dream: to join the ranks of Coco Chanel to become a designer in the high-stakes world of Parisian haute couture. But Alix also has a secret: she supports her family by stealing designs to create bootlegs...

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Birkelund
  • Location(s): Paris, Senlis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Monsieur Claude Reynaud is known throughout France for his talent for making fabulous clothes. The most elegant women in Paris regularly make the pilgrimage to the cobbled village of Senlis to be charmed by the tailor in the cluttered...

The girl who fell from the Sky

The girl who fell from the Sky
  • Author(s): Simon Mawer
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Also known as Trapeze. Marian Sutro is a young woman recruited by the British Intelligence Service to go to occupied France and work with the resistance there and carry out a particular mission – essentially to encourage her first...

The Greater Journey – Americans in Paris

The Greater Journey – Americans in Paris
  • Author(s): David McCullough
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1830-1900

The Greater Journey focuses on the period between 1830 and 1900, when hundreds of Americans–many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, John Singer Sargent and Harriet Beecher Stowe–migrated to Paris. McCullough shows...

The Green Shore

The Green Shore
  • Author(s): Natalie Bakopoulos
  • Location(s): Greece, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

This is a very vivid picture vivid picture of Greece, in part the one of white washed walls and hot pine needles, the sea…. but there is also more detailof the relationships and what was going on in the...

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