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The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
  • Author(s): Ellery Lloyd
  • Location(s): Cambridge, Dubai, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1938/1991/contemporary

Some women can’t be erased from history . . . A story of love and madness, of obsession and revenge. Paris, 1938: Runaway heiress Juliette Willoughby perishes, with her married lover, in an accidental studio fire alongside her Surrealist...

The Forgetting Flower

The Forgetting Flower
  • Author(s): Karen Hugg
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Secrets and half-truths. These litter Renia Baranczka’s past, but the city of Paris has offered an escape and the refuge of a dream job. The specialty plant shop buzzes with activity and has brought her to a new friend,...

The French Honeymoon

The French Honeymoon
  • Author(s): Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sometimes, Paris is a terrible idea. This is not how she imagined it, any of it. Taylor Quinn arrives at her honeymoon suite in the City of Love alone, sans suitcase, but with wads of stolen cash. When she...

The French House Share

The French House Share
  • Author(s): Gillian Harvey
  • Location(s): Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bella’s living her dream life, running a beautiful, rural French B&B and has finally put her past behind her. But when her husband suddenly asks for a divorce, everything changes. Forced to abandon everything she’d built before, she finds...

The Geranium Woman

The Geranium Woman
  • Author(s): Hazel Manuel
  • Location(s): India, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

While grieving the death of her father, the Parisian CEO of a corporate events company faces stark choices. Questioning what it means to ‘succeed’, she must decide whether to keep trying to build an ethically sound company, in keeping...

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro
  • Author(s): Christine Féret-Fleury
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is the French phenomenon by Christine Féret-Fleury ready to charm book-lovers everywhere . . . When Juliette takes the...

The Godmother

The Godmother
  • Author(s): Hannelore Cayre, Stephanie Smee (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux – 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen… and soon to become The Godmother. For 25 years she has...

The Great Believers

The Great Believers
  • Author(s): Rebecca Makkai
  • Location(s): Paris, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and 1980s

In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins...

The Guardian of Lies

The Guardian of Lies
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Eloïse Caussade is a courageous young Frenchwoman, raised on a bull farm near Arles in the Camargue. She idolises her older brother, André, and when he leaves to become an Intelligence Officer working for the CIA in Paris to...

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Liège, Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Novella
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On...

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