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The Devil’s Banker

The Devil’s Banker
  • Author(s): Edward Subut
  • Location(s): Paris, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

Read the riveting story of the man who, almost single-handedly, crippled ISIS in 2019! Unbeknownst to all but a few, CIA analyst John Quirston, a Marine veteran maimed in an explosion at the Baghdad morgue, stubbornly aches towards his...

The Dragonfly

The Dragonfly
  • Author(s): Kate Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris, Burgundy-Franche-Comté
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Dragonfly offers an enchanting account of the relationship between a middle-aged Englishman, Colin and his French granddaughter, Delphine, who are thrown together when her mother is killed. A complicated and unhappy family history haunts this unlikely couple on...

The Dressmaker’s Gift

The Dressmaker’s Gift
  • Author(s): Fiona Valpy
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by...

The Eater Guide to PARIS (Eater City Guide)

The Eater Guide to PARIS (Eater City Guide)
  • Author(s): Eater, Lindsey Tramuta
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink
  • Era(s): 2020s

The Eater Guide to Paris is your go-to source for getting immersed in Paris’ iconic dining culture. Offering context on how the local scene has been shaped by history, immigration, agriculture, and tradition, this guide offers vibrant, incomparable insight...

The Enigma Challenge

The Enigma Challenge
  • Author(s): S C Godfrey
  • Location(s): Paris, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe Wilder has the unflashy, solitary life of an academic, studying ciphers in literature at a California university. When her research takes her to a cryptology conference in Madrid, she’s not expecting to kick off the Enigma Challenge, a...

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 French Illusion

The French Illusion
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Europe, France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a new gripping, suspenseful page-turner about a Paris honeymoon gone horribly wrong – and the nightmare that follows. After Paul and Chelsea Tanner’s fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon...

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