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Book Review: The Safe Place by Anna Downes

By Doreen Sheridan

July 16, 2020

I’m pretty sure Anna Downes’ The Safe Place will be this summer’s quintessential beach read. An intelligent page-turner featuring beautiful, flawed people in glamorous surroundings with a ripped from the headlines twist, this is the perfect novel for those on a getaway or, given the interesting times we live in, those longing for a getaway.…

Desert Island Books with Anna Downes

By Anna Downes

July 13, 2020

Ever since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. When I was a child, you couldn’t enter our house without catching snippets of Michael Parkinson or Sue Lawley chatting to Joanna Lumley, Eric Clapton, or Princess Michael of Kent about their most treasured pieces of music. As…

Featured Excerpt: The Vacation by T. M. Logan

By T. M. Logan

June 15, 2020

Chapter 1 We drove north, away from the coast. Through the outskirts of Béziers and deeper into the Languedoc. Vineyards heavy with fruit lined the road on both sides, ranks of low green vines marching off into the distance under a deep blue Mediterranean sky. Sean driving, his eyes hidden behind aviator shades, the kids…

The Safe Place by Anna Downes: New Excerpt

By Anna Downes

May 21, 2020

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…

Book Review: The Killing Tide by Jean-Luc Bannalec

By Scott Adlerberg

February 6, 2020

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…

Book Review: The Reunion by Guillaume Musso

By Emma Cazabonne

July 18, 2019

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…

Book Review: The Black Jersey by Jorge Zepeda Patterson

By Doreen Sheridan

June 25, 2019

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…

Stick Together by Sophie Henaff

Book Review: Stick Together by Sophie Hénaff

By Doreen Sheridan

April 3, 2019

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…

Book Review: The Last of the Stanfields by Marc Levy

By Ardi Alspach

January 8, 2019

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

Review: Deadly Camargue by Cay Rademacher

By Doreen Sheridan

November 19, 2018

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…

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