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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,...

My Life as as Silent Movie Star

My Life as as Silent Movie Star
  • Author(s): Jesse Lee Kercheval
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s forward

After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren’t the Americans who raised...

Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe
  • Author(s): Jon Teckman
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, fast-paced comedy about what happens when all of your dreams become true. What would you do if… …you were happily married …with two gorgeous children …and the most gorgeous film star in the world walked up to...

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees
  • Author(s): Elly Grant
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Palm Trees in the Pyrenees gives you an insight into the workings and atmosphere of small town France against a background of gender, sexual, racial and religious prejudice. The story unfolds, told by Danielle a single, downtrodden , thirty...

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