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Banquet of Beggars

Banquet of Beggars
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): WW2

In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in. And his latest investigation into the murder...

Bed of Nails

Bed of Nails
  • Author(s): Antonin Varenne, Siân Reynolds (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller

t’s as if he’s being mocked from beyond the grave…When John Nichols arrives to identify the body of an old friend, he is instantly caught up in the wreckage of Alan Mustgrave’s life. This is the side of Paris...

Bitter Greens

Bitter Greens
  • Author(s): Kate Forsyth
  • Location(s): Venice, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fairy Tales, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th / 17th Centuries

THREE WOMEN BOUND TOGETHER BY THE STRANDS OF FATE   Charlotte-Rose de la Force, exiled from the court of the Sun King Louis XIV, has always been a great teller of tales.   Selena Leonelli, once the exquisite muse...

Black Notice

Black Notice
  • Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
  • Location(s): Paris, Lyon, Richmond (VA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

An intriguing Dr Kay Scarpetta novel which will take Kay an ocean’s breadth away from home. The case begins when a cargo ship arriving at Richmond, Virginia’s Deep Water Terminal from Belgium is discovered to be transporting a locked,...

Black Sparrow

Black Sparrow
  • Author(s): A J Griffiths-Jones
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Two people, from two very different cultures and with two identical suitcases, are bound for Paris – with completely different intentions. One is a young Muslim woman taking the first steps of independence that will crush her traditional beliefs;...

Black Venus

Black Venus
  • Author(s): James MacManus
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

In nineteenth century Paris, the young bohemian Charles Baudelaire roams the streets. Dressed impeccably – thanks to an inheritance that is quickly vanishing – and lost in the decadences of alcohol and opium, he is about to meet one...

Bonita Faye

Bonita Faye
  • Author(s): Margaret Moseley
  • Location(s): Oklahoma, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

When small town girl Bonita Faye’s abusive husband, car salesman and fishing guide Billy Roy, is killed, she begins an adventurous new life that takes her from Poteau, Oklahoma to Paris and back again in a story of murder...

Bonjour, Sophie

Bonjour, Sophie
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1959

Can she escape the darkness of her past in the City of Light? It’s 1959 and time for eighteen-year-old Sophie’s real life to start. Her existence in the village of Poynsdean, Sussex, with her austere foster-father, the Reverend Osbert...

Book of Forbidden Words

Book of Forbidden Words
  • Author(s): Louise Fein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1550s / 1950s

1552, Paris: Against a backdrop of turmoil, suspicion, and paranoia, the printing press is quickly spreading new ideas across Europe, threatening the power of church and state and unleashing a wave of book burning and heretic hunting. When frightened...

Charlatan

Charlatan
  • Author(s): Kate Braithwaite
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

1676. In a hovel in the centre of Paris, the fortune-teller La Voisin holds a black mass, summoning the devil to help an unnamed client keep the love of the King of France, Louis XIV. Three years later, Athénaïs,...

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