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Murder In Paris ’68

Murder In Paris ’68
  • Author(s): Edward Chisholm
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1960s Paris, the high-life and the low-life go hand in hand. It is a time of glamour, sports cars, casinos and night clubs with a cast of actresses, petty criminals, high-level gangsters and compromised politicians. And with French...

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 Most Delicious

Murder Most Delicious
  • Author(s): Danielle Postel-Vinay
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Starting over in Paris was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime for American sommelier Olivia Beech—until her dream job ends in murder. Once a rising star in the wine world, Olivia was one of a handful of...

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 Hummingbird Father

My Hummingbird Father
  • Author(s): Pascale Petit
  • Location(s): Venezuela, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / Twentieth Century

When artist Dominique receives a letter from her dying father, a reckoning with repressed memories and a pull for romantic and familial love sends shockwaves through her life, as she journeys to Paris to face the places and events...

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...

Never Go Full Pai

Never Go Full Pai
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Eng
  • Location(s): Vietnam, Paris, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Present

All night parties. Quick love affairs. Wild and carefree adventures. Perfectly filtered Instagram posts. A break from reality for most, but not everyone has a perfect life to return to when stepping off the road. In Never Go Full...

Night Flight to Paris

Night Flight to Paris
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris, Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is once again up to American markswoman Kate Rees to take the shot that just might win–or lose–World War II, in the followup to national bestseller Three Hours in Paris. Three missions. Two cities. One shot to win...

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