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Liberty Silk

Liberty Silk
  • Author(s): Kate Beaufoy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919, 1945, 1965

One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...

Maestra

Maestra
  • Author(s): L S Hilton
  • Location(s): Geneva, London, Paris, Rome, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she’s a hostess in one of the capital’s unsavoury bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game....

Magic Sometimes Happens

Magic Sometimes Happens
  • Author(s): Margaret James
  • Location(s): Bath, Minnesota, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance

Passport to love London-based PR and promotions consultant Rosie Denham has just spent a year in Paris where she’s tried but failed to fall in love. She’s also made a big mistake and can’t forgive herself. American IT professor...

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge

Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Aimee Leduc, the chic Parisian computer hacker turned private investigator extraordinaire, has her suspicions aroused by the dubious motives of her business partner’s new girlfriend Meizi. After a shrinkwrapped body turns up outside the Meizi’s birthday party in Chinatown...

Murder Below Montparnasse

Murder Below Montparnasse
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When Aimee’s long-term partner and best friend Rene leaves their detective agency for a new job in Silicon Valley, Aimee knows she can handle the extra workload. At least, that’s what she tells herself. But all bets are off...

Murder in Belleville

Murder in Belleville
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When April in Paris means riots and firebombs. Tensions run high in the working-class neighbourhood of Belleville when a hunger strike to protest against strict immigration laws escalates. Aimée Leduc is trying to help her old friend Anaïs, the...

Murder in Passy

Murder in Passy
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

The village-like neighbourhood of Passy, home to many of Paris’ wealthiest residents, is the last place you would expect a murder. But when Aimee Leduc’s godfather Morbier asks her to check on his girlfriend that’s exactly what she does...

Murder in the Bastille

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

Aimee Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket for dinner at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district, but is chagrined to see the woman at the very next table wearing an identical jacket. When...

Murder in the Midi

Murder in the Midi
  • Author(s): Cecilia Peartree
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Mystery

Isabelle doesn’t expect a summer job in the south of France to turn into a nightmare. But even before she encounters the mysterious Nathan Freelander at the wheel of a boat on the Canal du Midi, she is already...

Murder in the Sentier

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

Once filled with fashionable mansions the historic Sentier district of Paris has nowadays fallen on hard times, housing the rag trade alongside sleazy nightclubs. Aimée Leduc finds herself drawn to the area when a woman, newly released from prison,...

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