French Historical Mystery

Summer 1923. Lady Eleanor Swift is finally persuaded by her butler, Clifford, to take a villa in the south of France for the season. She plans to do what a glamorous lady abroad should: long lunches on the balcony followed by lazy afternoons lounging by the pool. But when Clifford examines the wine cellar, he discovers there are no decent reds, but there is a very dead body. The victim is famous American movie-star Rex Armstrong. Poor Rex seems to have been stabbed with a sword from the film set. So how did he end up in Eleanor’s villa?

Late spring, 1936. As Kitty Underhay steps onto the sun-drenched station platform in Nice, on orders from Whitehall to track down a missing man, she hopes there will still be time to lie by the pool, preferably with a cocktail in hand. But when she and her husband Matt take a brief evening stroll, instead of finding a perfect croissant, they stumble across a body. Kitty and Matt quickly realise it is Fred Bennett, the man from Whitehall they were hoping to find. Had he simply drunk too much fabulous French wine, or is something fishy going on in this seaside city?

As Paris rediscovers its joie de vivre, Tabitha Knight, recently arrived from Detroit for an extended stay with her French grandfather, is on her own journey of discovery. Thanks to her neighbor and friend Julia Child, another ex-pat who's fallen head over heels for Paris, Tabitha is learning how to cook for her Grandpere and Oncle Rafe and Tabitha's sojourn is proving thoroughly delightful. That is, until the cold December day they return to Julia's building and learn that a body has been found in the cellar.

When the wrong human couple is struck by love’s arrow, one of Fate's workers must join forces with her ex-boyfriend to set things right—or risk consequences of otherworldly proportions—in this magical second-chance romance. Demi is a breaker, tasked with ending human relationships when...

One spring evening in 1884, beautiful young courtesan Lola Deslys discovers the lifeless body of a chambermaid hidden in the gardens of the Hôtel Beau Rivage in Cannes. Even more distressing is that Lola knows the girl well. When the inquiry into her murder fails to reveal a single substantial clue, Lola is persuaded by novelist Guy de Maupassant to delve into the case on her own. Eager to exert her independence and defy conventions, Lola agrees. But she needs help in her investigation, and there’s no better partner in her pursuit - however unlikely - than Miss Gabriella Fletcher, a highborn, well-educated, and currently disgraced English governess.

Un secret interdit… Le destin de l'Église en suspens… Un duo de limiers amateurs révélera-t-il une vérité qui pourrait bouleverser le monde chrétien ? La Résurrection est la pierre angulaire de la foi chrétienne. Toutefois, lorsqu'un indice jaillit qui suggère un récit différent, les conséquences pourraient bien changer la chrétienté à jamais. Le poste du prêtre Michael Dominic aux légendaires Archives secrètes du Vatican l'amène à découvrir un papyrus perdu, enseveli dans les sous-sols de Rome : les écrits jusqu'alors inconnus de Marie Madeleine.

For three centuries, New Orleans has harbored dark secrets in its shadowy streets and atmospheric courtyards. While tourists flock to ghost tours and vampire fiction, locals whisper about something far more real—and infinitely more dangerous.Fangs of the French Quarter exposes the documented encounters, unexplained disappearances, and chilling testimonies that reveal the truth behind New Orleans' vampire legends.

Un prêtre curieux découvre un secret mystificateur... Un secret qui mène à une relique longtemps enterrée que certains feraient tout pour posséder. Pourra-t-il déjouer des adversaires qui ne reculeront devant rien pour l'empêcher de révéler un objet qui remet en cause l'histoire telle que nous la connaissons ? Le père Michael Dominic découvre un puzzle du XIIIe siècle étrangement construit, caché dans les archives secrètes du Vatican.

Intrepid reporter Charlotte "Charlie" James arrives in Paris in 1938 eager to make a fresh start, but little does she know the trouble that awaits her... Charlie James is chasing her first big scoop as correspondent for British-based newspaper The Times, and she needs to prove to her boss that...

In 1900, the crumbling French Quarter is an enclave of immigrants, primarily Sicilian. Early one July evening, four-year-old Luigi Bova is lured from in front of his house by the promise of ice-cream by a man who tosses Luigi into the back of a passing wagon. A frantic search ensues but Sicilians are reluctant to call the New Orleans Police Department populated by mostly Irishmen. Detective Jacques Dugas, taking a short cut through the Quarter, comes upon a street full of people looking for the missing boy and takes command of the situation.

Davenport, Iowa. 1906. Dead bodies are piling up in Fairmount Cemetery at the rate of one per week, and the police seemingly wash their hands of the investigation, saying the killer fled the country. Everyone assumes the killer got away with murder until novelist Alice French and her partner, Jenny Crawford, take up the killer’s trail. The investigation takes the amateur sleuths through the city’s underbelly—visiting saloons, bawdy houses, and uncounted disreputable characters.

Après un naufrage en Méditerranée, le célèbre duo d'enquêteurs que forment le chevalier de Volnay, commissaire aux morts étranges, et son père, le moine hérétique, est momentanément séparé. Tandis que le moine se retrouve prisonnier de l'île de la mystérieuse Calypso qui révère les dieux de l'Egypte ancienne, le chevalier de Volnay devient esclave au Caire !

Paris, 17 octobre 1961. Les Algériens manifestent pour protester contre le couvre-feu qui leur est imposé par le préfet de police. C'est un carnage. Le lendemain matin, parmi les cadavres d'Algériens, on retrouve celui d'un Européen, Roger Thiraud, un petit prof d'histoire sans histoires. Bavure policière ? Règlement de comptes dans les réseaux de soutien au FLN ? De toute façon, l'amnistie a tôt fait de balayer tout cela.

À la fin du XIIe siècle, un pèlerin de Saint-Jacques est retrouvé assassiné dans l'enceinte de l'abbaye de Hautefage. Peu après, un homme qui détenait de précieuses informations sur le crime meurt à son tour, noyé. Qui est le meurtrier ? Plus l'enquête avance, plus on se demande s'il y a encore des innocents...