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In 1760, Guillaume le Gentil, real-life astronomer to King Louis XV, sets out for the oceans of India to document the transit of Venus. The weather is turbulent, the seas are rough and his quest may be more complicated than initially thought. 250 years later, estate agent Xavier Lemercier chances upon Guillaume’s telescope in a property he’s sold. As he looks out across the rooftops of Paris, he discovers an intriguing woman with a zebra in her apartment. Then the woman walks through the doors of his office, and his life changes forever.
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1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice. Together they navigate London, from its high-class clubs to its murky underbelly. But as the bodies pile up, they must rely on one another if they’re going to track down the killer – and make it out alive.
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When an affair ends badly and takes her career down with it, 26-year-old Erin leaves Auckland to spend the holiday weekend with her aunt, uncle and terminally ill mother at their suburban family home. On arrival she learns that her mother has decided to take matters into her own hands and end her life – the following Tuesday. Tasked with fulfilling her mother’s final wishes, Erin can only do her imperfect best to navigate difficult feelings, an eccentric neighbourhood and her complicated family of former competitive swimmers.
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A Parisian editor is drawn into a murder investigation when an unknown thriller author is shortlisted for a prize.
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After drinking a bottle of vintage Beaujolais, a group of Parisian neighbours are transported back in time to 1954.
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ÂHe was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For no man should rummage through a woman’s handbag.’
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Like Cinderella’s glass slipper or Aladdin’s lamp, the hat is a talisman that makes its wearers’ dreams come true.
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1775. Returning from a diplomatic mission in Vienna, Le Floch investigates a baker’s death amid outcry at soaring bread prices.
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Paris 1774. Nicolas is on trial, as unknown enemies try to implicate him in the murder of his lover.
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Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. But beneath this façade lies the real Renée: passionate about culture and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives.
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The first in a series of ten historical crime novels set in pre-revolutionary Paris featuring policeman Nicolas Le Floch.