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Shiver

Shiver
  • Author(s): Allie Reynolds
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

They don’t know what I did. And I intend to keep it that way. How far would you go to win? Hyper-competitive people, mind games and a dangerous natural environment combine to make the must-read thriller of the year....

Shooters

Shooters
  • Author(s): Julia Boggio
  • Location(s): England, France, Italy
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stella Price is determined to become a successful wedding photographer, even if it means learning from Connor Knight, a wedding shooter with sexy rock star status and an ego to match. Burned by an affair that ended her last...

Significance

Significance
  • Author(s): Jo Mazelis
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Lucy Swann is trying on a new life. She’s cut and dyed her hair and bought new clothes, but she’s only got as far as a small town in northern France when her flight is violently cut short. When...

Silk

Silk
  • Author(s): Alessandro Baricco
  • Location(s): France, Japan
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1861

The year is 1861. Herve Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for...

Sisters

Sisters
  • Author(s): Michelle Frances
  • Location(s): Elba, Italy, Northern Spain, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Elba to Italy, through the South of France and into Spain. Is blood really thicker than water? Abby and Ellie were never close as children. Now in their thirties, they each harbour deep-rooted resentment for the other –...

Sleeping People Lie

Sleeping People Lie
  • Author(s): Jae de Wylde
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

Paris, France, and attractive, vibrant 26-year-old Sloane from Stamford, England, meets Nicholas, a writer and artist from Boston, USA, and ten years her senior. The attraction is immediate. Sloane believes that she has found the love of her life....

Sleeping with Paris

Sleeping with Paris
  • Author(s): Juliette Sobanet
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Charlotte Summers is a sassy, young French teacher who is two days away from moving to Paris with the love of her life and from fulfilling her dream of studying at the prestigious Sorbonne University in France. But when...

Songs of Blue and Gold

Songs of Blue and Gold
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Corfu, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

In the horseshoe bay of Kalami in Corfu, a tumultuous love affair begins between a renowned novelist and a woman escaping scandal. Years later, her daughter Melissa, running from her own past, returns to the island … Melissa’s life...

Stone’s Fall

Stone’s Fall
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Why did John Stone die,having fallen from a window at his London home? This is a complex mystery, which starts in London in 1909 and gradually the search for the truth lies in going to Paris in 1890, and...

Sun Damage

Sun Damage
  • Author(s): Sabine Durrant
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The heat is intense. The secrets are stifling. She just needs to escape . . . Nine guests arrive at a remote villa in the south of France. They know each other well. Or think they do. But at...

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