France

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France Book 1

Thriller. Newly-weds Dan and Bea decide to escape London. Driving through France in their clapped-out car they anticipate a long, lazy summer. Stopping off at Bea’s brother’s crumbling hotel, the trip are joined unexpectedly by her wealthy parents. Dan has never understood Bea’s sense of discomfort around them, but once in their company he begins to sense that something is very wrong.

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France Book 2

Paris. 1942.  An architect accepts a commission that will bring him huge wealth – and perhaps a death sentence. The brief, to design a hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible it won’t be discovered by even the most determined of Nazi soldiers. When one of his other designs fails horribly, the commission becomes personal and he has to come to terms with the enormity of his project. What does he owe to his fellow men and how far will he go to make things right?

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France Book 3
Historical fiction. 1921. The Somme. 1921. The Great War is over but Edie's husband did not come home, declared "missing, believed killed". A mysterious photo arrives, sparking hope and a journey to France to search for answers. His brother is also searching. Now hired by families to take photographs of graves and battle-sites he return to the Western Front, scene of traumatic memories, wishing the last conversation he had with his brother had been different.

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France Book 4
WW2 Historical fiction. Haute-Loire region. 1942, Eva is forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children escaping to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and alongside a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva realises she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children too young to remember their own identities. When Rémy disappears and the resistance cell is betrayed, the coded records they keep become even more crucial… A present day discovery of the book leaves researchers desperate to decipher its codes. Eva holds the answer but will she have the strength to face old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?

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France Book 5
Thriller. An exclusive French alpine ski resort and a luxury corporate retreat for a young, hip music app company. Tensions are high as stakeholders and directors are at odds over whether to accept a highly lucrative buyout. One of them goes missing in the snow, an avalanche cuts them off from any contact with the outside world and suddenly it is lives not just money at stake.

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France Book 6
Historical fiction. Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Present-day, hoping for a new start, Abi takes a summer job in rural France at Chateau Bellevue, a place full of voices from the past, finding herself drawn to one remarkable woman's story. 1938 and Elaine tends the beehives at Chateau Bellevue. There she meets and falls in love with Mathieu, but as the clouds of war approach, it seems history has other plans for her. Separated from Mathieu by the German occupation she makes the dangerous decision to play her part in fighting for France's freedom.

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France/Spain
Zoe is an artist from California. Martin an engineer from Yorkshire. Both have found themselves in Cluny, France coming to terms with their recent past. For Zoe it is the death of her husband, for Martin a difficult divorce. Looking to make a fresh start, each sets out alone to walk 2000km from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela in NW Spain, following in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the camino for centuries. It's said the Camino changes you - it's a chance to find a new version of yourself. But can these two very different people find each other?

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France Book 7
Suspense. Following her husband's death, Emily is happy to find herself surrounded by fellow Oxford academics and students at the rustic and isolated Chalet des Angles in the French Alps where she hopes to find the opportunity to begin to heal. On her first night she discovers an inappropriate liaison between a student and a colleague. Suddenly that student disappears and when Emily find's her late husband's number in the student's call history she realises others, including herself may be at risk and she must decide who, if anyone, she can trust.

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France Book 8
South of France. 1953. The fragile peace between the West and Russia hangs on a knife edge. Eloïse Caussade was raised near Arles in the Camargue, idolising her older brother André. When he leaves to become a CIA officer in Paris, she soon follows him. Having left the confines of her father's farm for a life of freedom, her world comes alive. Everything changes when André is injured - a direct result of Eloïse's actions. She follows her brother home, but Arles is in a state of unrest and conflict. Those who are angry at the construction of the US airbase nearby confront those who support it, and anger flares into violence, stirred up by Soviet agents. Eloïse relentlessly hunts the person who betrayed her brother but she is beginning to look at those she loves through different eyes. She no longer knows who she can trust.
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France Book 9
Provence. Élodie was beautiful. Élodie was smart. Élodie was troubled. Élodie is dead. Sylvie hasn't been back to La Rêverie, her crumbling family home in years. Not since the death of her daughter, Élodie. Every corner of the old house feels haunted by memories of her - memories Sylvie has tried to forget. But as temperatures rise, and forest fires rage across the French countryside, a long-buried family secret is about to come to light. Because there's something Sylvie has been hiding about what really happened to Élodie that summer.
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France Book 10
Nice. Contemporary fiction. Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his 11-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France. This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's sharp eye and ease with tech help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past, both come to grasp the risks that loved ones take for one another and find they are more akin than they knew. A funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a young boy who unpick their painful stories and embark on writing a new one together.
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France Book 11
Thriller. Seven days. Three families. One killer. It was supposed to be the perfect holiday, dreamed up by Kate as the ideal way to turn 40: four best friends and their husbands and children in a luxurious villa under the blazing sunshine of Languedoc-Roussillon. But there is trouble in paradise. Kate suspects that her husband is having an affair and that the other woman is one of her best friends. One of these women is willing to sacrifice years of friendship and destroy her family. But which one? As Kate closes in on the truth in the stifling Mediterranean heat, she realises too late that the stakes are far higher than she ever imagined. Because someone in the villa is prepared to kill to keep their secret hidden.
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France Book 12
South of France. Thriller. The perfect holiday. The perfect crime...When Ali has the chance to stay at a beautiful house in the south of France, she jumps at it. But not everything is as it seems. Surrounded by a group of wealthy friends, Ali blends expertly into the background. She's watching them all. And she isn't the only one interested. The heat rises. The pool shimmers. Secrets are exposed. And Ali must face up to the biggest lie of all: herself.
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