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Conspiracy

S.J. Parris

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The Paris Affair

Tracy Grant · 442 pages

"In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons flaunt their victory with lavish parties, while Bonapartists seek revenge only to be captured and executed. Amid the turmoil, British attache and Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, discover that his murdered half-sister, Princess Tatiana Kirsanova, may have borne a child--a secret she t

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Betrayal at Lisson Grove

Anne Perry · 314 pages

It's 1895 and an increasingly violent tide of political unrest is rising fast all over Europe. Special Branch's Inspector Thomas Pitt knows that they must find those responsible before England is overrun by reformists intent on overthrowing the government. When he finds himself in pursuit of a suspected terrorist, Pitt has no hesitation in following the chase all the way to France. But events take

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Shadow of Night

Deborah Harkness · 592 pages

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782 deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew’s past tightens around them, and

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The Paris Spy

Susan Elia MacNeal · 301 pages

**"You'll be [Maggie Hope's] loyal subject, ready to follow her wherever she goes." --*O: The Oprah Magazine*** **AMERICAN-BORN SPY AND CODE-BREAKER extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II in the latest novel in this *New York Times* bestselling series--"a treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers alike" (

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The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas · 555 pages

Three great swordsmen, Porthos, Aramis, and Anthos, with their protege, D'Artagnan, match wits with the sinister Cardinal Richelieu who seeks to divide the royalty in his own quest for power.

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Checkmate

Dorothy Dunnett, Vintage Books · 586 pages

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A Spark Unseen

Sharon Cameron · 335 pages

When Katharine Tulman foils an attempt to kidnap her Uncle Tully, she finds herself caught up in international intrigue. Aware that there are people who want to turn her uncle's mechanical fish into an explosive device, and unsure of who to trust, she decides to fake her uncle's death and flee to Paris in search of Lane Moreau, her uncle's assistant.

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The Red Coffin

Sam Eastland · 361 pages

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The Foreign Correspondent

Alan Furst · 288 pages

From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls "America's preeminent spy novelist," comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom--the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the backstreets of Berlin. It is an inspiring, thrilling saga of everyday people forced by their hearts' passion to fight in

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The Cardinal's Blades

Pierre Pevel · 384 pages

""Paris, 1633. Louis XIII reigns over France and Cardinal Richelieu governs the country. One of the most dangerous and most powerful men in Europe, Richelieu keeps a constant, sharp eye on the enemies of the Crown to avoid their assassination attempts, thwart their spies and avert their warmongering. The nobility keep tiny dragonnets as pets; royal couriers ride tame wyverns and lethal man-shaped

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Emmuska Orczy · 283 pages

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.

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Topaz

Leon Uris · 352 pages

On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis, American and French intelligence agents are plunged into a maze of Cold War intrigue In Paris, 1962, French intelligence chief André Devereaux and NATO intelligence chief Michael Nordstrom have uncovered Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms to Cuba. But when Devereaux reports his findings and nobody acts—and he is targeted in an assassination attempt—he soon re

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Touchstone

Laurie R. King · 560 pages

Hailed for her rich and powerful works of psychological suspense as well as her New York Times bestselling mysteries, Laurie R. King now takes us to a remote cottage in Cornwall where a gripping tale of intrigue, terrorism, and explosive passions begins with a visit to a recluse upon whom the fate of an entire nation may rest--a man code-named . . . It's eight years after the Great War shattered B

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The Chatelet Apprentice

Jean-Francois Parot · 343 pages

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The Seeker

S.G. MacLean · 432 pages

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Death Comes As Epiphany

Sharan Newman · 320 pages

Catherine LeVendeur, the most promising student in Heloise's convent, Paraclete, has the responsibility of discovering who has altered the text of a psalter given the the Abbot of Suger during the 12th century.

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Dunkirk Crescendo

Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene · 322 pages

As Spring 1940 unfolds in Paris, war is inevitable. AP jouranlsit Josephine Marlow is asked to undertake a dangerous journey back into the borders of the Reich--just when the Fuhrer is gathering his forces for another invasion. If she is successful, a child will live. If not, he will die. And many other children, too. French colonel Andre Cahrdon knows that the undefeated Fuhrer will not hold back

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Folly Du Jour

Barbara Cleverly · 330 pages

Paris, 1927. It's springtime in Paris and Joe Sandilands, a Scotland Yard detective, has flown in to attend an Interpol conference. However, he is promptly diverted to the Quai des Orfevres where his old friend, Sir George Jardine, has been arrested for murder. George is confined to a cell at police headquarters, his evening dress stained with the blood of the man he is alleged to have knifed to d

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The Orchid Affair

Lauren Willig · 445 pages

Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School and her first assignment is serving as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot to unseat Bonaparte, and Laura's mission is to report any suspicious findings. Soon, Laura and Jaouen are forced on

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The Spymaster's Lady

Joanna Bourne · 384 pages

She's never met a man she couldn't deceive...until now.She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit.

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The Escape

Robert Muchamore · 298 pages

As two British children are being hunted by German agents, British spy Charles Henderson is trying to reach them first, but to do it he must depend on the help of a twelve-year-old French orphan.

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An Officer and a Spy

Robert Harris · 429 pages

"Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a bay

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The Père-Lachaise Mystery

Claude Izner · 306 pages

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