Mysteries In France

"THIS IS AN ENTERTAINING NOVEL THAT WILL DELIGHT FANS OF SLEUTHING, MYSTERY AND MURDER." - Readers' Favorite. The tourist season is almost over so Catherine is happy to have four guests staying at her chambres d’hôtes for an indefinite time: Leaving those guests for a short time in the care of her husband Karl, Catherine accompanies her friend Marie to a family gathering. Events take a turn for the worse so Catherine returns home only to discover that one of her guests is missing. With circumstances spiralling out of control, Catherine is once again put in harm's way. Events conclude ...

Fans of this series will enjoy reading about the antics of their favourite amateur sleuth in Peril in Poitiers. Catherine is questioned as the main suspect in a theft. Discovering that the only person with any information to help clear her name is missing, she is forced to enlist the help of friends to investigate the truth of the matter. Unfortunately, the phlegmatic Inspector Maupetit is less than impressed with Catherine snooping around.

Catherine and her friends visit a family friend in Ruffec for a short holiday. When they realise all is not what it seems, Catherine becomes engrossed in solving mysteries from the family's past. Meanwhile Inspector Maupetit turns up unexpectedly in the area but isn't keen on divulging why he's there. Events take a turn for the worse when there is an accusation of murder and the Inspector's investigations collide with Catherine's amateur sleuthing. Unfortunately, though not unexpectedly, Catherine is once again put in harm's way.

THE GUEST’s visit to the author’s Spanish home was meant to be a carefree fortnight of work and leisure, but it didn’t turn out that way. Mike Rippon’s account of John Smith’s eventful stay is both humorous and harrowing, as his guest’s behaviour becomes increasingly odd. Undisputedly an expert golfer, John’s veiled tales of his life as a secret serviceman begin to strike a less than harmonic chord and Mike is soon counting down the days until his departure. John, however, is in no hurry to leave, and despite enlisting the help of his friends, Mike’s undoubted patience and ...

When a French priest collapses at Easter Mass, the church suspects foul play. A missing junior priest quickly becomes the prime suspect, but not everyone agrees. Reverend Annabelle Dixon and Inspector Mike Nichols were looking forward to a few days off, but when her oldest friend in the whole world asks for help with this conundrum, how can Annabelle say no?...

Featuring AnaRose and the Templar’s Quest, AnaRose and Pharaoh’s Gold, AnaRose and Medusa’s Curse. Lost Relics. Ruthless Foes. One Woman’s Race to Protect the Past. Renowned antiquities expert AnaRose Preston doesn’t go looking for trouble, but history keeps dragging her in. When sacred artifacts resurface from the shadows of time, AnaRose finds herself confronting secret sects, ancient curses, and cults willing to kill for mythic power. From unraveling the mystery of a Templar knight’s sacred dagger to confronting a doomsday cult in modern Egypt, and battling for a cursed ...

Bookshop owner Sarah never expected to find a dead body at her former high school. Sarah Smith loves books, coffee, and quiet. All that is shattered when her father figure and a high school principal is found dead. Sarah has read so many of her mystery books that now she has to face one. Sarah unites with Jacob Rider, her ex-boyfriend and a charming detective who loves solving mysteries. Together they uncover misleading clues, multiple suspects, and a thick plot of intrigue. Time is running out as Sarah delves deep into books and theories. With every page she turns, she inches closer to ...

'A lively and interesting read, with a good mystery. Readers will be looking forward to the next Catherine Patterson mystery, especially since dead bodies seem to always appear where she least expects to find them.' It is amazing how Catherine seems to attract dead bodies at her chambres d’hôtes in rural southwest France. Even local Inspector Maupetit seems to think it odd that mystery and murder all focus around this woman and her picturesque little corner of the world. Readers' Favorite - 'Vengeance in the Vendee is GM Haley’s second in the Catherine Patterson Mystery Books. The ...

American architect Jordan Mayfair travels to Provence with visions of Roman ruins bathed in magical Provençal light‚ exquisite foods and wines‚ and - possibly - an alluring Frenchmen. She will experience all she imagined‚ but she never expected to be chased across the French countryside for an Elvis recording. Danger follows her to the village of Fontvieille‚ where the colorful inhabitants are in a frenzy over missing Van Gogh sketches.

When Stanley Lambchop is asked to help catch an art thief in Paris, he's thrilled! Posing as a painting in the Louvre museum on a wall across from the famous Mona Lisa? - c'est magnifique! But Stanley soon grows bored - until he meets Etoile, an art student who shows him around the City of Light. Then when Stanley goes back to the museum, he soon realizes that the Mona Lisa looks…different. It's been switched for a fake!

Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand' Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, 75-year-old proprietor of La Grand' Terre, Gaston Dominici, was brought to trial, convicted, and condemned to death by guillotine.

When almost-thirteen-year-old Josephine Eloise Thomas moves from Sydney to a chateau in the southwest of France, she expects many things - adventures, inspiration for the stories she loves to write and maybe finding out more about her French mother, who tragically died when she was a toddler. What she doesn't expect is to find a beautiful gold locket with the ghost of Louis XVII trapped inside! After being accidentally released into the twenty-first century, the young prince proves to be annoying, strange and obviously from another time.

Beleaguered Captain Katel Marelle hopes for an open-and-shut case while investigating a death in the rugged French Ardennes. But an apparent suicide turns vastly more complicated when three IDs are pulled from the glove box of the deceased’s car. Renaud Duval, Pierre Rousseau, Hans Bernard—three men with the same face but different birthplaces. Marelle has her work cut out for her, figuring out not only how the man died but who he really was.

Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day’s new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered - from the perspective of the murderer himself. When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last.

The fisherman who pulls Sophia out of the harbor has a secret, and she's dying to know it, but hopefully not literally. Sophia decides to take a vacation in the South of France to get away from troubles back home from her ex and work. As she strolls along the quayside, she trips over a discarded rope and head over heels falls into the dock.

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS distract the Nazis to allow airborne landings to go ahead? September 1944: in the wake of the successful Anvil landings, the Allies plan airborne landings in the Orléans Gap. To soften the enemy beforehand, they decide to drop a squadron of men and jeeps in Central France, to hit enemy positions and distract attention from the landings taking place elsewhere.

Under Occupation is based on a true story. After the German victory in 1939, thousands of Poles were sent to Germany as slave labourers. From Germany, the Poles found ways to transmit intelligence back to the British in London. Under Occupation takes place in occupied Paris in 1942, with scenes in Germany and Romania. The hero of the book is Paul Ricard, a French writer of genre - spy and detective - novels.