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The Company She Keeps

The Company She Keeps
  • Author(s): Diana R Chambers
  • Location(s): Iran, Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

A young southern woman, Evelyn-also known as “E”-is confronted by a CIA officer, Nick, who says her mysterious lover is being investigated as a foreign mole. Shocked, she agrees to cooperate, secretly. E thus enters the international world of...

The Coral Thief

The Coral Thief
  • Author(s): Rebecca Stott
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 19th Century

July 1815, Daniel Connor arrives by mail coach in Paris and his affair with a beautiful coral thief. In his luggage are three rare fossils and the bones of a mammoth. Napoleon is already in exile…this is post revolutionary...

The da Vinci Code

The da Vinci Code
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): England, Paris, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A murder in the silent after-hours halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of...

The Dark Angel

The Dark Angel
  • Author(s): Dominique Sylvain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

On the one hand, there’s Lola. A grumpy retired policewoman who cannot get by without her two best friends: red wine and jigsaw puzzles. On the other, there’s Ingrid, an American in love with Paris. By day she gives...

The Day of the Jackal

The Day of the Jackal
  • Author(s): Frederick Forsyth
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A....

The Devil’s Cave

The Devil’s Cave
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Périgord
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Springtime in St Denis. It’s two weeks before Easter, and Satanism has reared its ugly head. A female body has been found on a boat, bearing the ghastly signs of a black magic ritual. The victim is unknown and...

The Disappearance of Emily Marr

The Disappearance of Emily Marr
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Île de Ré (Île de Re)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Arriving on the windswept Ile de Ré off the coast of France, Tabby Dewhurst is heartbroken and penniless, unable even to afford a room for the night. Then she overhears a villager repeating aloud the access code to her...

The Dream of Scipio

The Dream of Scipio
  • Author(s): Iain Pears
  • Location(s): Provence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Various

Set in Provence at three crucial moments of Western civilisation (the final collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the 14th century, and the Second World War in the 20th), Pears presents the...

The Dress Thief

The Dress Thief
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Alix Gower has a dream: to join the ranks of Coco Chanel to become a designer in the high-stakes world of Parisian haute couture. But Alix also has a secret: she supports her family by stealing designs to create bootlegs...

The Dressmaker

The Dressmaker
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Birkelund
  • Location(s): Paris, Senlis
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Monsieur Claude Reynaud is known throughout France for his talent for making fabulous clothes. The most elegant women in Paris regularly make the pilgrimage to the cobbled village of Senlis to be charmed by the tailor in the cluttered...

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