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Secrets of Paris

Secrets of Paris
  • Author(s): Luanne Rice
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lydie McBride has always embraced life to the fullest. But when an unthinkable tragedy strikes her family, everything she believes in is shattered. Her art-historian husband, Michael, watches the passion disappear from Lydie’s eyes and from their marriage, and...

Skin Deep

Skin Deep
  • Author(s): Antonia Lassa
  • Location(s): Biarritz, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When police arrest eccentric loner Émile Gassiat for the murder of a wealthy woman in a shabby seaside apartment in Biarritz, Inspector Canonne is certain he has put the killer behind bars. Now he just needs to prove it....

Spies of the Balkans

Spies of the Balkans
  • Author(s): Alan Furst
  • Location(s): Balkans, Paris, Thessaloniki (Salonika)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Salonika 1940, Constantine Zannis the central character, policeman working on sensitive cases. As the war draws closer he becomes more involved in spying and Allied agent. He assists in the escape of Jews from Germany, to Turkey, and to...

Standing Heavy

Standing Heavy
  • Author(s): Frank Wynne (Translator), Gauz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1960s to present day

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard’s smile. The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift. Babies adore the security guard. Perhaps because he does not drag babies to the sales. The...

Suite Francaise

Suite Francaise
  • Author(s): Irene Nemirovsky
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Written during the War it is a heartfelt and memorable read.

Tenacious (6)

Tenacious (6)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): France, The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 18th Century

Thomas Paine Kydd is in Halifax enjoying the recognition and favour of his fellow officers when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson’s taskforce on an urgent reconnaissance mission. Intelligence suggests the French Revolution is about to set the...

The Bones of Paris

The Bones of Paris
  • Author(s): Laurie R King
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1929

Paris, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream – he’s getting paid to troll the cafes and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a...

The Book of Salt

The Book of Salt
  • Author(s): Monique Truong
  • Location(s): Belley, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1930s

Saigon in the 20s, Paris in the 30s, this is the story of loss and exile. Paris in the household of Gertrude Stein, and Saigon the homeland. A touchingly evocative novel.

The Chalet Girl

The Chalet Girl
  • Author(s): Kate Lace
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The ski season. A glamorous world of snowy pistes, gorgeous ski instructors and glittering après-ski nightlife. What’s not to love? Quite a lot, thinks Millie Braythorpe. Four months of endless bed-making and cooking for guests have taken their toll,...

The Chateau

The Chateau
  • Author(s): Catherine Cooper
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), French Alps
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They thought it was perfect. They were wrong… A glamorous chateau Aura and Nick don’t talk about what happened in England. They’ve bought a chateau in France to make a fresh start, and their kids need them to stay...

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