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The Officer’s Prey
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Set against the sweeping background of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1813, The Officer’s Prey is a fast-paced novel that will appeal ...Read Review
Strangled in Paris
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Courentin Jourdan rescues the young Sophie Clairsange from the tides along the Normandy Coast. He revives her and sends her to the nuns ...Read Review
The Confidant
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A beautiful, intricate book, The Confidant is held together with delicate threads and secrets. I scarcely know how to review it without inadvertently ...Read Review
In the Shadow of Paris
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Writing under the pseudonym Claude Izner, two sisters (Liliane Korb and Laurence LeFevre) have conjured up a respectable and widely enjoyed collection of ...Read Review
The Assassin in the Marais
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The Assassin in the Marais is the fourth title in the Victor Legris mystery series set in Belle Époque Paris. For those unfamiliar ...Read Review
The Hurlyburly’s Husband
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The Marquis de Montespan and his new wife Athenais are a truly devoted love match, which is a rare thing amongst the nobility ...Read Review
The Disappearance at Pere-Lachaise
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Fin-de-siècle Paris was a macrocosm of art, literature, dancers in the Moulin Rouge and lovers walking along the Seine. However, a microcosm ...Read Review
The Sun King Rises
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Orphaned Gabriel de Pontbriand has fled the stifling conformity of the country life his uncle has planned for him for the flesh pots ...Read Review
The Montmartre Investigation
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This is the third in the series of crime novels featuring Parisian bookseller and amateur sleuth, Victor Legris. This time a series of ...Read Review