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The Martin Edwards Column: The Small World of Crime
Posted On: May 17, 2010Posted In: The Martin Edwards Column
Publisher: The Bookdagger Crew
In the second of his exclusive monthly columns for Bookdagger, crime novelist and commentator Martin Edwards recommends some European crime novels for those looking to expand their reading horizons beyond Blighty.
Read More...Read an extract from The Nicolas le Floch Affair, by Jean-François Parot
Posted On: March 22, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Commissioner Le Floch’s adventures reach their fourth instalment in Jean-François Parot’s acclaimed historical crime series.
Read More...Read the first chapter of historical thriller The Sun King Rises
Posted On: January 22, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Enjoy the first chapter of Jego Yves and Lepee Denis’s explosive historical thriller with Bookdagger.com.
Read More...Read an extract from Murder on the Eiffel Tower, the first Victor Legris mystery
Posted On: November 19, 2009Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Read an extract from Death on the Eiffel Tower and you could win the first three Victor Legris adventures, historical crime fiction set in fin-de-siècle Paris.
Read More...Read an extract from Memory of Flames, by Armand Cabasson
Posted On: October 12, 2009Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
March 1814. With enemy advancing, Paris is in real danger of falling to occupying forces. But at a moment when all efforts should be directed towards the defence of the city, Joseph Bonaparte is concerned with the murder of a retired colonel, and orders Colonel Quentin Margont to conduct an investigation into his death.
Read More...The pleasures of Paris: eighteenth century prostitution
Posted On: September 24, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Gallic Books
Newly released in August, The Nicolas Le Floch Affair is the fourth in Jean-François Parot’s Nicolas Le Floch murder investigations, set in eighteenth century pre-revolutionary Paris.
Read More...Andrea Japp: The French Connection
Posted On: July 18, 2009Posted In: Articles, Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
French author Andrea Japp continues her series of mystery novels, featuring Agnes de Souarcy, this month with the third in the sequence, The Divine Blood. Set in 14th century Normandy, the books combine crime fiction with historical detail, and have proved a hit both in her native France and abroad.
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