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Playdate

Playdate
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Norway, Ariège, Sandefjord, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2010s

It was meant to be your daughter’s first sleepover. Now it’s an abduction.   Lucia Blix went home from school for a playdate with her new friend Josie. Later that evening, her mother Elisa dropped her overnight things round...

Poppy Does Paris

Poppy Does Paris
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The first instalment in this hilarious, romantic and unputdownable five-part series. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart… novels. Paris. City of love, city of romance. The last place you want to go to on a work trip when you’re...

Run Away

Run Away
  • Author(s): Alex Johnson
  • Location(s): Australia, Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Julie’s been haunted by the memories of her failed marriage for far too long. Devastated when Lisa, her teenage daughter, sets off on a Gap Year trip, Julie realises she really is on her own. She buries herself in...

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...

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