Death In Avignon
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Author | : Serena Kent |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062869906 |
Set amidst the gorgeous backdrop of Provence, Serena Kent’s second book in the deliciously entertaining Penelope Kite series finds the amateur sleuth romantically linked with the mayor of St. Merlot and dashing to solve the murder of an expat artist—perfect for fans of Peter Mayle and Agatha Christie. After an eventful first few months in Provence, it seems Penelope is finally settling into her delightful new life, complete with a gorgeous love interest in the mayor of St. Merlot. When Penelope and the mayor attend a glamorous gallery opening, Penelope’s biggest worry is embarrassing herself in front of her date. But the evening takes a horrifying turn when a controversial expat painter, Roland Doncaster, chokes to death. A tragic accident? Or a malicious plot? Reluctantly drawn into the murder investigation, Penelope discovers that any number of jealous lovers and scheming rivals could be involved. And with dashing art dealers to charm, patisseries to resist, and her own friends under suspicion, Penelope will need to draw upon all her sleuthing talents to uncover the truth. Set against the stunning vistas of Provence, Serena Kent returns with the second installment of her charming mystery series featuring the unflappable Penelope Kite.
Author | : Serena Kent |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062869876 |
The first entry in a clever, lighthearted mystery series set in modern Provence—a delightful blend of Agatha Christie and Peter Mayle—featuring the irrepressible Penelope Kite, a young-at-heart divorcee with a knack for stumbling across dead bodies. It’s love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant d’Eau—The Song of Water—the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley, complete with a garden, swimming pool, and sweeping mountain vistas. For years, Penelope put her unfaithful ex-husband and her ungrateful stepchildren first. Since taking early retirement from her job in forensics at the Home Office in England, she’s been an unpaid babysitter and chauffeur for her grandchildren. Now, she’s going to start living for herself. Though her dream house needs major renovations, Penelope impulsively buys the property and moves to St. Merlot. But Penelope’s daydreams of an adventurous life in Provence didn’t include finding a corpse floating face down in her swimming pool. The discovery of the dead man plunges her headlong into a Provençal stew of intrigue and lingering resentments simmering beneath the deceptively sunny village. Having worked in the forensics office, Penelope knows a thing or two about murder investigations. To find answers, she must carefully navigate between her seemingly ubiquitous, supercilious (and enviably chic) estate agent, the disdainful chief of police, and the devilishly handsome mayor—even as she finds herself tempted by all the delicacies the region has to offer. Thank goodness her old friend Frankie is just a flight away . . . and that Penelope is not quite as naïve as her new neighbors in St. Merlot believe. Set against the exquisite backdrop of Provence, steeped in history, atmosphere, and secrets, Death in Provence introduces an irresistible heroine and a delightful new mystery series.
Author | : Marianne Calmann |
Publisher | : Allison and Busby |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780749004460 |
A Jewish family and other fascinating characters deal with prejudice and the Black Death in 14th-century Avignon'--until then the most prosperous and vibrant city in medieval France
Author | : Daniël Robberechts |
Publisher | : Dalkey Archive Press |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1564785920 |
A young man circles Avignon experiencing the town's history and exploring his own nature and sexuality.
Author | : Praveen V. Arla |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2017-02-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780989754446 |
The Girl from Avignon is a compelling story of a dystopian world where some of the most tragically flawed characters you will ever meet become engaged in a fight for love, power, and equality. This novel is an important work that raises serious questions about the ethics of modern science and the irrepressible power of human desire.
Author | : Ida Vos |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780395720394 |
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Author | : Susan Kiernan-Lewis |
Publisher | : Susan Kiernan-Lewis |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2020-07-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Every great play needs a drama queen. Preferably alive. The French city of Avignon is known for many things: its Papal Palace, the annual summer theater festival, its Medieval bridge of nursery rhyme fame…and now murder. When a popular actress is killed during Avignon's famous summer theater festival, all the evidence points to the police needing a fast resolution--regardless of the truth. It will be up to Maggie to find the killer who wanted the city’s most popular actress dead—and before he turns his attention on her. As Maggie desperately scours this beautiful medieval city for clues to uncover the killer's identity, it soon becomes clear that failing will put her center stage with her most ruthless adversary yet--with the final curtain about to come crashing down on everything she holds dear.
Author | : Kelsey Quick |
Publisher | : Vampires of Avignon |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781733072403 |
In the Vampire Stratocracy of Cain, human blood is scarce. For centuries, councils have enslaved and bred humans, turning them into profitable supply units. Wavorly is bound to serve her blood willingly to her master for the rest of her life, but as one of only a few humans not bred in Cain, she knows freedom and is determined to escape.
Author | : Lawrence Durrell |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2012-06-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1453261451 |
From the olive trees of southern France to Gnostic cults in Egypt, a man and his lovers are invented and reinvented in this first volume of a great literary adventure. For British doctor Bruce Drexel, a return to Provence is bittersweet. Here, at a rustic chateau, he once fell in love with Sylvie, the Frenchwoman who would become his wife, and befriended her brother, Piers. The three made up a peculiar, potent ménage for years until Sylvie’s descent into madness and Piers’s suicide. As Drexel attends to Piers’s affairs, he becomes steeped in the memories of a spiritually transformational trip to Egypt; the band of intellectual confederates who used to be his intimate friends; and a three-sided love that became his reason for being. So begins Monsieur, the masterful first entry of Durrell’s Avignon Quintet, an infinite regress of memory and imagination that challenges the formal conventions of fiction.
Author | : Giovanni Catelli |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1787385310 |
In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated murder: he was silenced by the KGB. The Russians had a motive: Camus had campaigned tirelessly against the Soviet crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and vociferously supported the awarding of the Nobel Prize to the dissident novelist Boris Pasternak, which enraged Moscow. Sixty years after Camus' death, Catelli takes us back to a murky period in the Cold War. He probes the relationship between Camus and Pasternak, the fraught publication of Doctor Zhivago, the penetration of France by Soviet spies, and the high price paid by those throughout Europe who resisted the USSR.