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The Rose Villa

The Rose Villa
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now – in the aftermath of World War 1 – it is a convalescent home for sick...

The Secret Keepers

The Secret Keepers
  • Author(s): Tilly Bagshawe
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Wengen
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s-Second World War

The beautiful bastide at Beaulieu-sur-Mer has always been an idyllic retreat for the Challant family, a place of glorious memories and sun-drenched summers. But the summer of 1928 changes everything. One humid, stormy night, a young local boy suffers...

The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche

The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche
  • Author(s): M L Longworth
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Provençal Mystery Series #7 One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valère Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a...

The Secrets We Hide

The Secrets We Hide
  • Author(s): Patricia Sands
  • Location(s): Japan, Corsica, Hawai'i, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950 - 2012

The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...

The View Was Exhausting

The View Was Exhausting
  • Author(s): Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
  • Location(s): St Tropez
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The epic love story of the summer. Whitman ‘Win’ Tagore and Leo Milanowski are the greatest love story of our time. International movie star meets the beautiful son of a millionaire. Their kisses write headlines and their fights break...

The Vineyard

The Vineyard
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Kent
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been five years, and Lizzie Lambert has decided it’s time to try to make things right with her estranged mother. She’s made a success of things in Cannes, she’s bringing up a lovely little boy on her own,...

The Wedding Night

The Wedding Night
  • Author(s): Harriet Walker
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Lizzie calls off her wedding in the south of France only a week before the big day, not even her closest friends know why. But since the chateau is already paid for, they figure it’s the perfect place...

Three O’Clock in the Morning

Three O’Clock in the Morning
  • Author(s): Gianrico Carofiglio
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

A coming-of-age novel—a heady union of Before Sunrise and Beautiful Ruins—about a father and his teenage son who are forced to spend two sleepless nights exploring the city of Marseilles, a journey of unexpected adventure and profound discovery that...

Total Chaos

Total Chaos
  • Author(s): Jean-Claude Izzo, Howard Curtis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Marseilles Trilogy, 1) Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in this city of melancholy beauty. A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in...

Villa of Second Chances

Villa of Second Chances
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): Antibes
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Run by sisters Rebecca and Delphine, Villa Sesame is a popular venue for small intimate weddings on the sparkling French Riviera. Beautiful terraces and a horizon pool overlook the Mediterranean, a setting where dreams come true. When recently widowed...

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