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The Chestnut Roaster

The Chestnut Roaster
  • Author(s): Eve McDonnell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1887

From the acclaimed author of Elsetime, shortlisted for the Awesome Book Award, a magical and thrilling adventure. “Starting on All Fools Day, twelve years ago, I remember everything. EVERYTHING. That was a wet Saturday, and that was the day...

The Chosen Maiden

The Chosen Maiden
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Monte Carlo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Based on the famous dance siblings: Vaslav Nijinsky and his brilliant sister Bronislava (Bronia) this is a story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with...

The Clockwork Girl

The Clockwork Girl
  • Author(s): Anna Mazzola
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Paris, 1750. In the midst of an icy winter, as birds fall frozen from the sky, chambermaid Madeleine Chastel arrives at the home of the city’s celebrated clockmaker and his clever, unworldly daughter. Madeleine is hiding a dark past,...

The Club Dumas

The Club Dumas
  • Author(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Location(s): Paris, Madrid, Toledo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Lucas Corso is a book detective, a middle-aged mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found dead, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three...

THE COCOA GIRLS

THE COCOA GIRLS
  • Author(s): Annie Doyle
  • Location(s): Gateshead, London, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 19th and early 20th centuries

Gateshead, 1903 – four-year old Evie’s world crumbles when her grandmother dies. Evie’s unmarried mother Margaret and Aunt Dinah discover their mother’s death has left them deeply in debt to their vicious aunt. She orders the sisters into service...

The Coming Darkness

The Coming Darkness
  • Author(s): Greg Mosse
  • Location(s): North Africa, Paris
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Thriller

A thrilling debut that has been likened to John Le Carré and Raymond Chandler… Paris, 2037. Alexandre Lamarque of the French external security service is hunting for eco-terrorists. Experience has taught him there is no one he can trust...

The Committed

The Committed
  • Author(s): Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1981

The long-awaited new novel from one of America’s most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his blood brother Bon try to escape their pasts and...

The Corpse with the Amber Neck

The Corpse with the Amber Neck
  • Author(s): Cathy Ace
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Cait Morgan Mysteries Book 15) It’s April in Paris, and Cait Morgan’s just completed a stint as a visiting professor of criminal psychology at the Sorbonne. Her husband, retired homicide detective Bud Anderson, has joined her, but –...

The Dead Have Lots To Say

The Dead Have Lots To Say
  • Author(s): Anna Redkina
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2019

In Paris, a bunch of famous dead people from various eras come back to life to meddle with today’s Parisians. Victor Hugo has a heated argument about love, Jim Morrison mocks a tattooed vegan, Marquis de Sade seeks punishment...

The Devil in Montmartre

The Devil in Montmartre
  • Author(s): Gary Inbinder
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

When the mutilated corpse of a beautiful dancer is found in a Montmartre sewer, a nervous public fears that Jack the Ripper has crossed the Channel—but Inspector Achille Lefebvre has his own theories. Amid the hustle and bustle of...

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