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Moscow Rules

Moscow Rules
  • Author(s): Daniel Silva
  • Location(s): Courchevel, Italy, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. But this is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and in thrall to a new generation of...

Murder in Pigalle

Murder in Pigalle
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Private Investigator Aime Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle, take on only computer security assignments and maybe try to learn how to cook (quelle catastrophe!). She’s vowed not to let herself get involved in any...

Murder in the Latin Quarter

Murder in the Latin Quarter
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimée’s sister, her father’s illegitimate daughter. Aimée is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother’s disappearance and her father’s death, she has always wanted...

Murder in the Palais Royal

Murder in the Palais Royal
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Just as Aime is about to leave for New York City to follow up on a lead about a man who might be her brother, her partner in Leduc Detective, Ren Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gunshot. Eyewitnesses...

Murder in the Rue de Paradis

Murder in the Rue de Paradis
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Aimée is thrilled when her one-time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist, returns from his assignment in Egypt and proposes marriage. But after a single night of bliss, his body is discovered in a Paris doorway. His throat has been...

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 Sordou

Murder on the Ile Sordou
  • Author(s): M L Longworth
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Like Donna Leon and Andrea Camilleri, M. L. Longworth’s books enchant mystery lovers with a taste for good food and gorgeous landscapes. In Murder on the Île Sordou, Judge Antoine Verlaque and his girlfriend, law professor Marine Bonnet, are hoping...

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...

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