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The Midnight Hour

The Midnight Hour
  • Author(s): Eve Chase
  • Location(s): Notting Hill, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Notting Hill, London. One May evening, seventeen-year-old Maggie Parker’s mother walks out of their front door and doesn’t return . . . With her little brother in tow, desperate to find her mother, Maggie is drawn into a labyrinthine...

The Paris Girl

The Paris Girl
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Paris, 1920s. Tatiana Vytenis has worked hard to leave her past behind. Once a ruined Russian princess in hiding, she is now a sought-after model and engaged to Gérard de Sainte-Vierge – a handsome, if occasionally overbearing, aristocrat. With...

The Paris Network

The Paris Network
  • Author(s): Siobhan Curham
  • Location(s): Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII and 1993

Paris, 1940: He pressed the tattered book into her hands. ‘You must go to the café and ask at the counter for Pierre Duras. Tell him that I sent you. Tell him you’re there to save the people of...

The Paris Secret

The Paris Secret
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Antibes, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Not every door should be opened . . . With stunning locations and page-turning tension, The Paris Secret is an intense and gripping tale from bestselling author Karen Swan. Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with...

The Rain Watcher

The Rain Watcher
  • Author(s): Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It is raining non-stop over Paris. The Malegarde family – split between France, London, and the US – is reunited for the first time in years. When Paul, a famous yet withdrawn arborist, suffers a stroke in the middle...

The red notebook

The red notebook
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street, and feels impelled to return it to its owner. The bag contains no money, phone or contact information. But a small red notebook with handwritten thoughts and...

The Savior of 6th Street

The Savior of 6th Street
  • Author(s): Orlando Ortega-Medina
  • Location(s): Paris, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Deserted by his father at the age of four and raised by his voodoo queen mother on the fringes of Skid Row, Los Angeles street artist Virgilio Santos believes it his mission to save the down-and-outers in his neighborhood....

The Scarlet Code

The Scarlet Code
  • Author(s): C S Quinn
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1789

1789 The Bastille has fallen… As Parisians pick souvenirs from the rubble, a killer stalks the lawless streets. His victims are female aristocrats. His executions use the most terrible methods of the ancient regime. English spy Attica Morgan is...

The Strawberry Thief

The Strawberry Thief
  • Author(s): Joanne Harris
  • Location(s): Gers
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her ‘special’ child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part...

Turf Wars

Turf Wars
  • Author(s): Olivier Norek
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

The summary execution of three dealers – one murdered in full view of a police surveillance team – is the signal for hell to be unleashed in France’s most notorious suburb. Now there’s a new kingpin in charge, using...

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