Prologue When the car bypassed the main terminal building and pulled up next to a sign that said PRIVATE JET CENTER, Emily breathed in so fast she almost choked. “You’re kidding me,” she said to her driver (her very own driver!), who smiled and opened the door for her like she was Cinderella. A security…
The Killing Tide is Jean-Luc Bannalec’s fifth novel in the Brittany Mystery Series set in the small coastal community of Brittany, France. Five years ago, I read the first of the series, Death in Brittany, but I haven’t read any of the series since. In the series opener, Dupin was a recent transplant from Paris…
In The Reunion by Guillaume Musso, a glamorous prep school girl goes missing after a love affair with a teacher in this irresistible thriller from one of France’s bestselling novelists… Guillaume Musso, one of the top three bestselling authors in France for years, is finally getting translated into English with The Reunion. It is his…
The Black Jersey by Jorge Zepeda Patterson is a fast-paced mystery where Murder on the Orient Express meets the Tour de France—someone’s killing off cyclists one by one. There’s a Shakespearean quality to this tale of high drama, passion, and betrayal set in a Tour de France plagued by horrible incidents, culminating in the murder…
In Sophie Hénaff’s Stick Together, Anne Capestan is back with her squad of misfits. But with their status in trouble and a hopeless murder to solve, team morale is running low. I adored Sophie Hénaff’s debut novel, The Awkward Squad, a droll police procedural centered on a group of cast-offs that the national police could not fire…
A mystery, a love story, and a search through a shadowy past. Two strangers unite in The Last of the Stanfields, a novel of family secrets by international bestselling author Marc Levy, the most-read contemporary French author in the world. It’s very hard to be novel (excuse the pun) with a mystery plot structure these…
Deadly Camargue by Cay Rademacher marks the return Detectives Captaine Roger Blanc and Marius Tonon as they’re called to Camargue to investigate the suspicious death of a reporter and TV personality. Capitaine Roger Blanc is gradually settling into life in Provence, and only occasionally thinking longingly of his old life in Paris. A heat wave has…
Deadly Camargue by Cay Rademacher marks the return Detectives Captaine Roger Blanc and Marius Tonon as they’re called to Camargue to investigate the suspicious death of a reporter and TV personality. August: the air over Provence shimmers in suffocating heat. Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleague Marius Tonon are called to the Camargue. A black fighting bull has…
International Dagger Award shortlisted author of The Murderer in Ruins, Cay Rademacher, delivers an atmospheric new story in Murderous Mistral: A Provence Mystery. Capitaine Roger Blanc, an investigator with the anti-corruption-unit of the French Gendarmerie, was a bit too succesfull in his investigations. He finds himself removed from Paris to the south of France, far away from political…
What was I thinking? When I decided to write a novel about an American couple that moves to rural France on a whim and must figure out how to fit into the local community, I didn’t think through the storytelling complications. She speaks French well enough, although much of it is “school” French, not idiomatic.…
