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The Paris Widow

The Paris Widow
  • Author(s): Kimberly Belle
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris in this new edge-of-your-seat thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Kimberly Belle. When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally...

The Parisian Heist

The Parisian Heist
  • Author(s): Jo Piazza
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): Late 1800s / Contemporary

Emma, a struggling American artist in Paris, thought she had left her dreams behind when she took a job cleaning for the city’s wealthy elite. Then she meets Stella Swanson, the widow of one of the most notorious art...

The Parisians

The Parisians
  • Author(s): Marius Gabriel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Paris, 1940. The Nazis have occupied the city­—and the Ritz. The opulent old hotel, so loved by Parisians, is now full of swaggering officers, their minions and their mistresses. For American Olivia Olsen, working as a chambermaid at the...

The Pear Affair

The Pear Affair
  • Author(s): Judith Eagle, Kim Geyer (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of acclaimed The Secret Starling – a spectacular adventure set through and under the streets of Paris. When Penelope Magnificent’s awful parents tell her they’re taking a trip to Paris, she...

The Perfume Thief

The Perfume Thief
  • Author(s): Timothy Schaffert
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Clementine is a seventy-two year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to...

The Perfumist of Paris

The Perfumist of Paris
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Agra, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

(The Jaipur Trilogy Book 3) From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick The Henna Artist, the final chapter in Alka Joshi’s New York Times bestselling Jaipur trilogy takes readers to 1970s Paris, where Radha’s budding career as a...

The Prague Cemetery

The Prague Cemetery
  • Author(s): Umberto Eco
  • Location(s): Paris, Prague, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1890s

An epicurean book with a vile protagonist, Simonini interwoven with historical threads right up to the beginnings of the Third Reich.

The Purple Shadow

The Purple Shadow
  • Author(s): Christopher Bowden
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day and 1930s

In the years before the war, Sylvie Charlot was a leading light in Paris fashion with many friends among musicians, artists and writers. Now she is largely forgotten. Spending time in Paris during a break in his acting career,...

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel

The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
  • Author(s): Pamela Binnings Ewen
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style—the iconic little black dress—and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The...

The Renoir Girls

The Renoir Girls
  • Author(s): Catherine Ostler
  • Location(s): France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s onwards

An astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris. In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. Pink and Blue, a portrait of Elisabeth...

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