We'll Always Have Paris
The Paris Architect : A Novel
by Charles Belfoure

A Parisian architect is paid handsomely to devise secret hiding spaces for Jews in his Nazi-occupied country but struggles with risking his life for a cause he is ambivalent towards, until a personal failure brings home their suffering.
The Paris vendetta : a novel
by Steve Berry

Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization
Three Hours in Paris
by Cara Black

A suspenseful historical tale based on the mystery of Hitler’s abrupt departure from newly occupied 1940 Paris follows the mission of a British intelligence markswoman who, while trying to assassinate the Führer, discovers that she has been set up.
The light of Paris
by Eleanor Brown

Feeling panicked by her empty life and marriage to a controlling and critical husband, misfit Madeleine discovers a revelatory journal written by her grandmother during a romantic, literary, and rebellious summer in Jazz Age Paris
Paris by the book : a novel
by Liam Callanan

When her eccentric novelist husband disappears, leaving behind only a hidden pair of plane tickets to Paris, Leah relocates to France and takes ownership of a small bookstore, where clues she discovers in an unfinished manuscript lead to consequential truths for her daughters
Haunting Paris : a novel
by Mamta Chaudhry

A bereaved pianist in 1989 Paris discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover's possessions before embarking on a search for a child who went missing during World War II. A first novel.
The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris
by Jenny Colgan

After a fateful accident at the chocolate factory where she works, Anna Trent is given the opportunity to work for an elite Parisian chocolate shop, where she falls in love with the city and awakens to new dimensions in her life
Paris Was the Place
by Susan Conley

Taking a job in 1980s Paris teaching asylum-seeking immigrant girls, Willie Pears reevaluates her views about family while bonding with her young charges, including a young Indian girl who compels her to make a wrenching decision.
The Paris Correspondent
by Alan Cowell

Reeling from the career-changing impact of the Internet age and 24-hour news cycles, Paris foreign correspondents Ed Clancy and Joe Shelby look back on their life-risking assignments in such world regions as Beirut and Kosovo while struggling with financial cutbacks and old rivalries.
The Good Thief's Guide to Paris
by Chris Ewan

Fresh from a successful Paris book reading, mystery writer and professional thief Charlie Howard is hired by his fence to steal an oil painting from the apartment at which he had been demonstrating his larcenous skills a day earlier, but when he decides to investigate the apparent coincidence in locales, his life is commplicated by murder--and his literary agent, Victoria. 
Mission to Paris : A Novel
by Alan Furst

Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists
I'll See You in Paris
by Michelle Gable

Three generations of women—Laurel; her daughter, Annie; and a relative known as the Duchess of Marlborough—face similar struggles in life, including lost loves, romance and mystery.
The Little Paris Bookshop
by Nina George

Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened. After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story.
Paris Red : A Novel
by Maureen Gibbon

A tale inspired by the life of the young woman depicted in Impressionist painter Edouard Manet's Olympia follows the life of a passionate girl in mid-19th-century Paris who after accepting dinner from a handsome stranger is indoctrinated into cultural society.
Goodbye, Paris : a novel
by Anstey Harris

After her long-term partner breaks up with her, Grace Atherton, who owns a violin shop, is faced with feelings of intense loneliness, but when she becomes friends with an elderly musician and a young teenager they give her the strength to rebuild her life
Paris in the present tense
by Mark Helprin

When faced with a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood and home, Jules—a 74-year-old maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria and child of the Holocaust—must confront his complex past and find a way forward.
In the Shadows of Paris
by Claude Izner

Bookseller Victor Legris's resolve to steer clear of amateur sleuthing wavers when a killer intent on exacting revenge for events that occurred years before the Commune causes the death of a bookbinder friend, a case that brings Victor into the bourgeois quarters of Paris.
The Paris Wife : a novel
by Paula McLain

Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.
The last days of new Paris
by China Miéville

A Surrealist bomb transfigures an alternate-reality World War II Paris into a phantasmagoric dreamscape, unleashing a race of nightmarish creatures.
Paris nocturne
by Patrick Modiano

This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a doseof ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the disappearance of the woman driver, culminate in a packet being pressed into the boy's hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. The confusion only deepens as the characters grow increasingly apprehensive; meanwhile, readers are held spellbound.
Moonlight over Paris : A Novel
by Jennifer Robson

Spending a year with her eccentric aunt in Paris in 1924, Lady Helena Montagu-Douglas-Parr is drawn into the world of the Lost Generation and its circle of American expatriates who help her find the courage to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.
All the Ways We Said Goodbye : A Novel of the Ritz Paris
by Beatriz Williams

An heiress, a Resistance fighter and a widow find their lives intertwined by their wartime experiences and the turbulent 1960s when they seek refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel.
Paris Match
by Stuart Woods

Stone Barrington returns to Paris, only to be embroiled in high-stakes trouble involving an old enemy with a vengeful associate and a scandal that threatens to disrupt a vital project in the United States
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