Murder In Grasse

When Maggie and Grace take a much needed weekend trip to Grasse, the perfume capital of the world, they find rejuvenation, reconnection…and murder—a murder that may decide the future of the perfume industry in France. When the helpful docent of their perfume tour ends up dead in their rented apartment’s swimming pool, Maggie and Grace decide that something definitely smells rotten. When the girl’s twin sister begs them to look for the killer, they do—but there’s a catch. If they don’t find the killer in time, the tourism that the area depends so heavily on will dry up…like a rose petal in direct sunlight. With the clock ticking, Maggie and Grace will have to dig deep to find the culprit behind the murder before the killer decides that the two of them are the real barrier to a good life on the Côte d’Azur.

Life begins to settle down for Claire after her horrific first year in Paris. Her career as the exclusive private investigator for the Paris expat community continues to thrive when the abusive boyfriend of her au pair is killed and the au pair is arrested for the crime. Determined to free the girl, Claire pushes through French red tape, double-dealing bureaucrats and a killer who is just as determined to stop her uncovering the truth—no matter the cost.

Thanksgiving in Paris. What could go wrong? Just find a turkey, rustle up some trimmings, grab a few loved ones...and track down the missing mother of your au pair. Did the woman leave voluntarily? Or was she forcibly taken? Those are the questions facing American expat Claire Baskerville who is spending her third Thanksgiving in Paris, away from home and family. In a city where she struggles with the language and has trouble finding cranberry relish let alone a turkey, Claire must search the city's streets for a mystery woman who, as it turns out, may very well be the key to everyone’s happy holiday.

Claire Baskerville is a "woman of a certain age" trying to make a new life for herself in the City of Light. When one of her clients—the owner of a popular expat bookstore—ends up brutally murdered in his bookstore, Claire finds herself in the hot seat. Working with a handsome police detective who was once her sworn enemy, Claire will need to find her client’s killer—while keeping herself out of jail and at the same time not the killer’s next victim.

Step into the exciting and tumultuous world of 1920s Savannah with 2023 police dispatcher Georgia Belle who is thrust into the past and into the center of a sinister mystery with personal ties to her future. As the body count rises, she joins forces with 1920s police detective Sam Bohannon to find the killer. Book 1 in this electrifying new historical mystery series combines romance, suspense, and intrigue for a thrill ride that will have fans of Golden Age Mysteries on the edge of their seats.

Just married, American expat Jules DeBray is adjusting to life as the wife of the local police chief when the proprietor of the iconic village cheese shop goes missing, upsetting the entire village. When the inevitable body shows up, fingers start pointing and it will be up to Jules to solve the mystery. In this cozy mystery, the peaceful Provençal countryside hides secrets as rich as a dark chocolate mousse. Snarky, witty and thoroughly American, Jules picks up where she left off in Murder, Voila in this charming cozy mystery with all the flavor and delight of a fresh-baked baguette!

Sometimes it's the little things that can change everything. Georgia Belle is engaged to marry the most amazing man she’s ever known. The only problem is she had to give up everything—her work, her family and her friends—and her own time period, to do it. After agreeing to marry the handsome Savannah Police Detective Sam Bohannon, Georgia makes a planned trip back to her own time to see her mother and decide if she is going to remain in the past. While home, she becomes trapped in a perilous situation that threatens her existence in both timelines. If she can’t solve the mystery in 2023 of who killed the mayor of Savannah before she goes back to 1923, the ramifications of her failure will ripple out much further than just one woman’s personal happiness. It will literally affect the next twenty years. And the coming world war.

A “hard to solve and easy to read” mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of the Peter Duluth series (Kirkus Reviews). Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: “Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.” Lewis Denham has always been the black sheep of the family. Adopted into the “proper” Denham household after his working-class parents died, Lew never quite fit in with the rest of the clan—or maybe he simply couldn’t keep his nose elevated that high for that long without getting frostbite. Either way, when he announces his marriage to a British girl without checking how blue her blood is, the family is aghast. But things become truly appalling when Lew finds a dead man in his apartment—and it seems the lower-class victim had a connection with his upper-crust family. Now, feeling more outside the Denham ranks than ever, Lew will have to look past his family’s elite façade and find out who they really are. And he’s about to learn that none of them are too good to get a little blood on their hands . . .