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Dark and Deepest Red

Dark and Deepest Red
  • Author(s): Anna-Marie McLemore
  • Location(s): Strasbourg
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 16th century and 21st century

With Anna-Marie McLemore’s signature lush prose, Dark and Deepest Red pairs the forbidding magic of a fairy tale with a modern story of passion and betrayal. Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets,...

Daughter of the Tide

Daughter of the Tide
  • Author(s): Leah Fleming
  • Location(s): France, The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

It is 1939 and the eve of the Second World War when the handsome sailor Ewan Mackinnon returns to his childhood home on the remote Hebridean island of Phetray. He was forced to run from the ignominy of a...

Daughters of War

Daughters of War
  • Author(s): Lizzie Page
  • Location(s): The Somme
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

As a teenager in Chicago, May always dreamed of traveling the world. So when she falls in love with George Turner, she can’t wait to return to London as his wife. Two beautiful daughters follow, but George isn’t the...

Dead on the Dolmen

Dead on the Dolmen
  • Author(s): Cameron Trost
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dead on the Dolmen, the first novel featuring Oscar Tremont, will have you wondering whether the Ankou really is riding forth across the land of magic and mystery that is Brittany, or is it an elaborate and macabre joke...

Death in Avignon

Death in Avignon
  • Author(s): Serena Kent
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): present

Glamour, intrigue, and a mystery to die for… After a tumultuous summer, Penelope Kite has settled into the rhythm of her new life in Provence. Lavender-scented evenings, long lunches with new friends – and an exclusive gallery opening to...

Death in Brittany

Death in Brittany
  • Author(s): Jean-Luc Bannalec
  • Location(s): Concarneau, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Commissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local...

Death in the Clouds

Death in the Clouds
  • Author(s): Agatha Christie
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

Flying from Paris to Croydon… A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane… From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his...

Death in the Dordogne

Death in the Dordogne
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Crime fiction fans worldwide are talking about the Dordogne Mysteries. In the first book in this beloved series, read and discover why, and what dark secrets are lurking in the idyllic French town of St Denis. When an old...

Death in the Dordogne (Bruno Courreges 1)

Death in the Dordogne (Bruno Courreges 1)
  • Author(s): Martin Walker
  • Location(s): Dordogne
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Captain Bruno Courreges goes by the grand title of Chief of Police, though in truth he’s the only municipal policeman on staff in the small town of St Denis in the beautiful Perigord region of south west France. Bruno...

Death on the Riviera

Death on the Riviera
  • Author(s): John Bude
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s

When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards – out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the Mediterranean. Along with Inspector Blampignon – an...

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