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The Monte Carlo Connection

The Monte Carlo Connection
  • Author(s): Josie Goodbody
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s / Contemporary

Diamond detective, Jemima Fox is tasked with hunting down the priceless Vogel Vanderpless diamonds that were stolen in The Diamond Connection by her nemesis Petrina Lindberg. She finds herself caught between searching for half-a-century-year-old stolen jewels and catching a...

The Olive Harvest

The Olive Harvest
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The third episode of a bestselling story which began with THE OLIVE FARM,… “The stars shimmer like spilled handfuls of glitter. The day is beginning to rise with a faint mist. As I turn my head, ghostly halos, auras...

The Olive Season

The Olive Season
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

“I scan the terraces, planted with row upon row of ancient olive trees. It is April, late spring. Here in the hills behind the Cote d’Azur the olive groves are delicately blossomed, with their tiny, white-forked flowers. Beyond them,...

The Other Side of Silence ( Bernie Gunther #11)

The Other Side of Silence ( Bernie Gunther #11)
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

The French Riviera, 1956. A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge. His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving...

The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set
  • Author(s): Lita-Rose Betcherman
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Picasso to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Churchill to sex kitten Brigitte Bardot. The glorious strip of Mediterranean beach stretching from Marseilles to Monaco still attracts writers, artists, film stars, and scoundrels. Betcherman’s rich account will delight tourists and armchair...

The Ruins

The Ruins
  • Author(s): Phoebe Wynne
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense
  • Era(s): 2010 looking back to 1985

Amidst the glamour of the French Riviera lies the crumbling façade of Chateau de Sètes, a small slice of France still held by the British aristocracy. But this long since abandoned chateau is now up for sale, and two...

The Suitors

The Suitors
  • Author(s): Cecile David-Weill
  • Location(s): Antibes, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes. After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise...

The Villa Golitsyn

The Villa Golitsyn
  • Author(s): Piers Paul Read
  • Location(s): Nice, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The story of a British Foreign Office official, who visits a schoolfriend – now living in the South of France. It has been a suspicion that the friend was not altogether clean whilst work for the Government, so is...

Villa America

Villa America
  • Author(s): Liza Klaussmann
  • Location(s): Antibes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos – all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and...

Swimming Home

Swimming Home
  • Author(s): Deborah Levy
  • Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes, Nice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is July, 1994 and Joe Jacobs, who is well known poet, his war reporter wife Isabel, and their 14 year old daughter are renting a holiday villa near Nice, accompanied by their friends Laura and Mitchell. Part into...

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