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Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 12
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Description
While planning a dinner party in Paris, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat becomes unnerved by the unexpected arrival of her son, a random encounter with a Turkish terrorist, and the recurring appearance of someone dead for twenty years.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
242 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Description
A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Max{u2014}an elderly Paris bookstall owner{u2014}is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent Tom Green. Their investigation reveals that Max was a Holocaust survivor and later became a Nazi hunter. Is his disappearance somehow tied to his grim history, or even to the...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
480 p. ; cm.
Description
"As the Belle Epoque dawns, Paris attracts artists from everywhere. One is Jeanette Palmer, daughter of a prominent Ohio family, who has left Vassar College under a cloud of scandal. Amid the city's great bohemian neighborhoods and teaching studios, Jeanette befriends other female artists, as well as an American Civil War veteran named Edward Murer. She begins to achieve a level of artistic success. And her happiness increases as she and Edward grow...
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 2
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm
Description
It's summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in Père Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison's grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, flitting in and out like a ghost, and breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears under the cover of night with part of her skeleton. One of the dead tourists is an American and the other is a woman linked...
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 3
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Hugo Marston must figure out what lies hidden inside an old sailor's chest before a 200-year-old blood promise is revealed and claims another life. In post-Revolution Paris, an old man signs a letter in blood, then hides it in a secret compartment in a sailor's chest. A messenger arrives to transport the chest and its hidden contents, but then the plague strikes and an untimely death changes history. Two hundred years later, Hugo Marston is safeguarding...
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood but their domestic bliss is shattered when a gang retaliates against Daniel after he makes a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York as soon as possible. Knowing she needs to protect their young son Liam, Molly agrees to take him on the long journey to Paris to stay with her friends Sid and Gus, who are studying art in the City of Light. But upon...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Michelle Gable's I'll See You in Paris winds together the lives of three women born generations apart, but who face similar struggles of love and heartbreak. After losing her fiancé in the Vietnam War, nineteen-year-old Laurel Haley takes a job in England, hoping the distance will mend her shattered heart. Laurel expects the pain might lessen but does not foresee the beguiling man she meets or that they'll go to Paris, where the city's magic will...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"When April Vogt's boss tells her about the discoveries in a cramped, decrepit ninth arrondissement apartment, the Sotheby's continental furniture specialist does not hear the words "dust" or "rats" or "shuttered for seventy years." She hears Paris. She hears escape. Once in France, April quickly learns the apartment is not merely some rich hoarder's repository. Beneath the dust and cobwebs and stale perfumed air is a goldmine and not because of the...
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 6
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Hugo Marston's friend Paul Rogers dies unexpectedly in a locked room at the American Library in Paris. The police conclude that Rogers died of natural causes, but Hugo is certain mischief is afoot. As he pokes around the library, Hugo discovers that rumors are swirling around some recently donated letters from American actress Isabelle Severin. The reason: they indicate that the actress had aided the resistance in frequent trips to France towards...
14) The button man
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 4
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In this prequel to The Bookseller, former FBI profiler Hugo Marston has just become head of security at the US Embassy in London. He?s asked to protect a famous movie-star couple, Dayton Harper and Ginny Ferro, who, while filming a movie in rural England, killed a local man in a hit and run. The task turns from routine to disastrous almost immediately. Before Hugo even meets them, he finds out that Ferro has disappeared, and her body has been found...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Paris isn’t just the City of Light; it’s the city of history, romance, stunning architecture . . . and food. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another ex-pat who’s fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpère and Oncle Rafe....
16) The last nude
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka....
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