France
France is one of the great tourist destinations, but remember not everything is in Paris. Take a cozy trip to some of the countryside while you’re there.
The Abigail Dixon Mysteries (Nancy Warren) Paris, 1925. Women’s pages reporter Abigail Dixon is seeking her big break in hard news. When the dowdy reporter is sent to interview a famous fashion designer she wonders if she’s made a terrible mistake.
The Capucine Mysteries (Alexander Campion)
The Catherine Patterson Mysteries (G. M. Haley)
The Chef Dani Rosetti Mysteries (Dianne Harman) Dani Rosetti leaves law school behind, heads to Paris, and becomes a chef. And not just any old chef – but a chef who goes on to become the darling of the celebrity chef world.
The Claire Baskerville Mysteries (Susan Kiernan-Lewis) Things can get pretty dark in the City of Light. Claire Baskerville is a sixty-something American who finds herself alone in Paris when her husband is brutally murdered.
The Cosette Cavalier Mysteries (Liz Turner) Cosette Cavalier, the brilliant detective from the picturesque village of Gordes, France, is as sharp as they come. She navigates high heels and unravels mysteries, one step at a time, and engages in a humorous battle of wits with the grouchy gendarme assigned to her cases.
The Death in Paris Mysteries (Emilia Bernhard) When French financier Edgar Bowen drowns in a bowl of soup, his former girlfriend, American Rachel Levis, is alarmed by the unnatural death. Who dies eating a nice vichyssoise? After the police rule the death accidental, Rachel knows it’s up to her and her best friend Magda to investigate.
The Felix and Penzi Mysteries (Katie Penryn)
The Follet Valley Mysteries (Ian Moore)
The Julie Cavallo Investigates Mysteries (Ana T. Drew) French tycoon Jean-Louis Ponsard is having a bad year. In the thick of it, his yacht becomes the scene of a suspicious death, and to make matters worse, the victim isn’t just anybody… She’s his much-hated mother-in-law.
The Lavender and Foxglove Mysteries (Hilary Rose Berwick)
The Maggie Newberry Mysteries (Susan Kiernan-Lewis) When Maggie Newberry’s sister is murdered on the French Riviera, Maggie flies to the south of France to bring home her body. When she arrives in France she finds a mystery that’s much bigger and more insidious than one dead American.
The Monsieur Pamplemousse Mysteries (Michael Bond) Aristide Pamplemousse is a former detective, now employed as an inspector for a French restaurant guide. He and his faithful, intelligent bloodhound, Pommes Frites, become involved with, investigate, and solve crime mysteries.
The Orvilly Mysteries (Rebecca Dunsmuir)
The Paris Booksellers Mysteries (Evan Hirst) For Ava Sext, a transplanted Londoner who sells books from an outdoor stand overlooking the Seine, her day goes from bad to worse when the tall handsome stranger whose appearance her horoscope predicted disappears after he is almost killed before her eyes.
The Paris Ghost Writer Chronicles (Corinne LaBalme) Ghost-writer Melody Layne is stranded in Paris when the French movie star who hired her to produce his memoir accidentally drowns before the interviews begin.
The Saint-Maurice Mysteries (Christa Bakker) Meet pin-up photographer Julie Belmain. When she starts poking her nose into a murder investigation, the people in her Beaujolais village turn out to hide more secrets than she’d care to know. Will her newfound knowledge be the death of her?
The Sophie Kiesser Mysteries (Curtis Bausse)
The Stranded in Provence Mysteries (Susan Kiernan-Lewis) Jules Hooker flees to Provence to escape the reality of being dumped by her boyfriend, but a dirty bomb that explodes over the Riveria throws her, and everyone else in France, back to the 1950s. So now she’s stranded, trying to make a living by solving murders the old fashioned way.
The World Traveler Mysteries (Carolyn L. Dean) Jennifer was happy working as a baker at the Ravenwood Inn, but when fate comes calling in the form of Gable Landon, she’s ready to jump at the new career he offers.