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Banquet of Beggars

Banquet of Beggars
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Suspense
  • Era(s): WW2

In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in. And his latest investigation into the murder...

Bay of Thieves

Bay of Thieves
  • Author(s): Megan Davis
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Monaco
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vanessa and Kate live a glamorous life in the South of France helping the rich stay richer by hiding their money. While they know it’s wrong, that their clients are corrupt, they are professionals and good at their jobs....

Beautiful Deception. A Murder Mystery set in France

Beautiful Deception.  A Murder Mystery set in France
  • Author(s): Tom Becket
  • Location(s): South West France
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No one dies like that, unless … In a small city in South West France, an art historian falls to his death, a student is murdered, a museum curator is crushed in a freak accident. Celestine Courbet, former detective...

Beautiful People

Beautiful People
  • Author(s): Amanda Jennings
  • Location(s): Cornwall, France, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the champagne flows at a glittering society wedding, one guest isn’t celebrating. It’s been years since Victoria fell in love with Nick and was welcomed into his circle of privileged friends at university. Then life took a darker...

Bed of Nails

Bed of Nails
  • Author(s): Antonin Varenne, Siân Reynolds (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller

t’s as if he’s being mocked from beyond the grave…When John Nichols arrives to identify the body of an old friend, he is instantly caught up in the wreckage of Alan Mustgrave’s life. This is the side of Paris...

Before the Dawn

Before the Dawn
  • Author(s): Emma Pass
  • Location(s): Devon, Normandy, The American South
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When everything you hold dear is torn apart by war, can love put you back together again? It’s 1943, and the Second World War is raging. Ruby Mottram works for her local newspaper, the Bartonford Herald, typing up adverts...

Behold the Bird in Flight

Behold the Bird in Flight
  • Author(s): Terri Lewis
  • Location(s): England, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1200s

Romantic and stubborn, eleven-year-old Isi plans to marry for love and be mistress of her own castle. But life in 1198 is full of threat and a series of tragic events teaches her growing up is hard. When Isi...

Between Darkness and Light

Between Darkness and Light
  • Author(s): Roy Peachey
  • Location(s): Shanghai, France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900

‘A shape flew towards him, blurred and uncertain, then the terror of anticipation was driven out by pain and horror. Weilian Tell missed the apple. The arrow’s sharp, bright tip pierced his eyeball.’ Shanghai 1900. Blinded in one eye...

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds
  • Author(s): Olivier Norek, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Calais
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Adam Sirkis needs to flee Syria. A captain in Assad’s military police, he’s about to be exposed as a covert member of the Free Syrian Army, and he knows exactly what fate awaits him. His first move is to...

Bitter Greens

Bitter Greens
  • Author(s): Kate Forsyth
  • Location(s): Venice, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fairy Tales, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th / 17th Centuries

THREE WOMEN BOUND TOGETHER BY THE STRANDS OF FATE   Charlotte-Rose de la Force, exiled from the court of the Sun King Louis XIV, has always been a great teller of tales.   Selena Leonelli, once the exquisite muse...

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