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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...

High Season

High Season
  • Author(s): Katie Bishop
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

In the heat of summer, the past can become hazy. . . For twenty years, Nina Drayton has told herself that she must have seen her sister, Tamara, being murdered by the family babysitter – Josie Jackson. That she...

House of the Hanged

House of the Hanged
  • Author(s): Mark Mills
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

A riveting and evocative tale of passion and murder, set on the French Riviera in the 1930s, from the No.1 bestselling author of The Savage Garden. France, 1935: At the poor man’s end of the Riviera sits Le Rayol,...

Hunkeler’s Secret

Hunkeler’s Secret
  • Author(s): Hansjörg Schneider
  • Location(s): Basel, Alsace
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

#4 in The Inspector Hunkeler series Hunkeler, now a retired inspector of the Basel police force, is hospitalized and sharing a room with Stephan Fankhauser, an old acquaintance terminally ill with cancer. One night, a groggy Hunkeler wakes up...

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...

Invitation to Provence

Invitation to Provence
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A Grandmother sets about gathering her brood around her. The real charm is the combination of disparate character who attend. An absorbing read and beautifully brings Provence to life.

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