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Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro

Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro
  • Author(s): Andrew Martin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Andrew Martin has been described as ‘the laureate of railways’, having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history...

Mistress of the Ritz

Mistress of the Ritz
  • Author(s): Melanie Benjamin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

“A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris from...

Model Under Cover: A Crime of Fashion

Model Under Cover: A Crime of Fashion
  • Author(s): Carina Axelsson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introducing Axelle Anderson: fashion’s most stylish detective. Despite her long legs and fashion-obsessed family, all Axelle wants to do is solve mysteries. So when star designer Belle La Lune vanishes, Axelle seizes the chance to go undercover as a...

Monstrous Design

Monstrous Design
  • Author(s): Kat Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century

Following the thrills and spills of Dangerous Remedy, the Battalion of the Dead return in a dazzling new adventure, set amid the opulence and squalour of 18th-century London and Paris. 1794, London: Camille and Al are desperately hunting Olympe’s...

Murder at La Villette

Murder at La Villette
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): 19th arrondissement, Paris
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Aimée Leduc #21 Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc doesn’t know that her life is about to be upended. Her ex, Melac, has been hounding her to move their daughter, Chloé, to Brittany. Aimée is fed up with his threats...

Murder in the Latin Quarter

Murder in the Latin Quarter
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Expatriate Maggie’s Paris holiday takes a dark turn when she ventures into the city’s famed Latin Quarter to visit Laurent’s ailing aunt—only to find a very healthy aunt and a very dead body. Maggie’s search for the killer uncovers...

Murder in the Marais

Murder in the Marais
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

In the Jewish quarter of Paris an old nightmare is reborn. Aimée Leduc, a half-American, half-French investigator in Paris, is approached by a rabbi to decipher a fifty-year-old encrypted photograph and deliver it to an old woman in the...

Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis

Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

As protestors march in Paris against a government agreement with an oil company suspected of polluting, Aimee Leduc, French-American computer investigator, finds herself with an abandoned infant, a drowned woman, a murdered client and a computer assignment deadline.

My Lies, Your Lies

My Lies, Your Lies
  • Author(s): Susan Lewis
  • Location(s): Paris, Devon, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present and looking back to 1960s

For readers of Lisa Jewell, Diane Chamberlain, and Jodi Picoult comes another gripping novel from internationally bestselling author Susan Lewis, about an eccentric old woman, the ghost-writer helping write her memoirs, and the destructive secrets binding them together. Ghost-writer...

Nana

Nana
  • Author(s): Emile Zola
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1860s

Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau’s rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during...

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