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Mira’s Way

Mira’s Way
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Era(s): sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

History brims with silenced stories. Will Mira’s be one of them? Mira’s Way, book two of The Miramonde Series, continues the mesmerizing tale of a Renaissance-era female artist and the modern-day art scholar who risks everything to learn her...

Mistress of the Ritz

Mistress of the Ritz
  • Author(s): Melanie Benjamin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

“A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris from...

Model Under Cover: A Crime of Fashion

Model Under Cover: A Crime of Fashion
  • Author(s): Carina Axelsson
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introducing Axelle Anderson: fashion’s most stylish detective. Despite her long legs and fashion-obsessed family, all Axelle wants to do is solve mysteries. So when star designer Belle La Lune vanishes, Axelle seizes the chance to go undercover as a...

Monsters

Monsters
  • Author(s): Sharon Dogar
  • Location(s): London, France, Scotland, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 1814: Two 16-year-old stepsisters run away with a married man. The results are devastating and the ripples will be felt for centuries. This is the incredible story of Mary Shelley – radical, rebellious and...

Monstrous Design

Monstrous Design
  • Author(s): Kat Dunn
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 18th century

Following the thrills and spills of Dangerous Remedy, the Battalion of the Dead return in a dazzling new adventure, set amid the opulence and squalour of 18th-century London and Paris. 1794, London: Camille and Al are desperately hunting Olympe’s...

Montbel

Montbel
  • Author(s): Angela Wren
  • Location(s): Massif Central
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A clear-cut case? A re-examination of a closed police case brings investigator, Jacques Forêt, up against an old adversary. After the murder of a key witness, Jacques finds himself, and his team, being pursued. When a vital piece of...

More Than One Kind

More Than One Kind
  • Author(s): Jean Gill
  • Location(s): Alsace
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One year is nothing; one year changes everything. ‘You’re old and cold,’ are the words that end Anne Grüber’s three-year relationship with a fellow-teacher. A hurtful insult that she fears may be true. What chance does she have now...

Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure

Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure
  • Author(s): Rhys Bowen
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Leading up to WW2

Blindsided by betrayal in pre-WWII England, a woman charts a daring new course in this captivating tale of resilience, friendship, and new love by the bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook. Surrey, England, 1938. After...

Murder at La Villette

Murder at La Villette
  • Author(s): Cara Black
  • Location(s): 19th arrondissement, Paris
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Aimée Leduc #21 Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc doesn’t know that her life is about to be upended. Her ex, Melac, has been hounding her to move their daughter, Chloé, to Brittany. Aimée is fed up with his threats...

Murder in Aix

Murder in Aix
  • Author(s): Susan Kiernan-Lewis
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Life is good when you’re a thirty-something expat living in an area of Provence where people would kill to live. And do. When Maggie’s best friend is arrested for murder Maggie is determined to find the real culprit. Trouble...

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