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Sightseeing

Sightseeing
  • Author(s): Michael Onofrey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Sightseeing, a novella, 25,500 words, is set in Paris, France, time span twenty-four hours. A man, Wayne, and a woman, Diane (or maybe Diane, for her name might not be Diane), meet and pursue an instant relationship in which...

Sky Chasers

Sky Chasers
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Orphan Magpie can’t believe her eyes when she sees a boy swept off his feet by a kite … or something that twists and dances in the wind. She goes to his rescue only to find herself dangling in...

Skylark

Skylark
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1660s / 1939

1664: Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works, who secretly dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned, Alouette’s efforts to save him...

Smoking Kills

Smoking Kills
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

-How far would you go to enjoy a cigarette? In this witty black comedy, Laurain’s anti-hero can only make smoking pleasurable by committing the ultimate crime… When head-hunter Fabrice Valentine faces a smoking ban at work, he decides to...

Someday in Paris

Someday in Paris
  • Author(s): Olivia Lara
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th century

This Christmas, it’s time to lose yourself in an unforgettable love story… 1954. Zara is fifteen the first time she meets Leon one wintery night in December. During a power cut in a small French museum, the two spend...

Strangled in Paris

Strangled in Paris
  • Author(s): Claude Izner
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

Why would anyone strangle a humble seamstress with no known enemies? When newly-married bookseller Victor Legris is asked to solve the murder of Louise Fontaine in the abattoir district of La Villette, he is initially baffled by the case....

Suslov’s Daughter

Suslov’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Habib Abdulrab Sarori
  • Location(s): Aden, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

As a young man growing up under communism in South Yemen, Imran finds himself drawn to Hawiya, the daughter of a high-ranking official in the ruling Marxist party. He departs Aden, the seaport city of his childhood, to study...

The Age of Light

The Age of Light
  • Author(s): Whitney Scharer
  • Location(s): Europe, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s- 1940s

‘I’d rather take a picture than be one,’ Lee Miller declares, as she arrives in Paris one cool day in 1929. Lee has left behind her life in New York and a successful modelling career at Vogue to pursue...

The Art of Murder

The Art of Murder
  • Author(s): Carol McKee Jones
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Murder, romance, Paris. A classic crime novel featuring betrayal and revenge set in the City of Light. Antique dealer, Liam, flees to Paris when a deal goes wrong. He meets Alouette, an ex-nightclub singer, who takes him in when...

The Art of Traveling Strangers

The Art of Traveling Strangers
  • Author(s): Zoe Disigny
  • Location(s): Italy, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

THE ART OF TRAVELING STRANGERS takes place in the 1980s and is about an art history professor named Claire who experiences a series of devastating losses, making her desperate to escape her shattered reality by taking a job as...

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