A pleasant evening dinner boat ride on the Seine is destroyed by a shocking murder—and a kidnapping. This time, there is no question who the perpetrator is. Even his master plan is revealed in stunning clarity to anybody paying attention—which Claire Baskerville certainly is. But for Claire—expat American and private investigator living in Paris—and her daughter, that knowledge may come too late. As Claire desperately searches for her daughter in a Paris whose borders have been briefly sealed due to a threatening viral pandemic, she knows the clock is ticking. The lockdown is only meant to give the hospitals a head start and protect the rest of the country. Will she find Catherine before the lockdown lifts? And her daughter is lost forever into the endless, mysterious mist of the Middle East—where Claire has no doubt her only child is bound for.

Murder strikes close to home when an altercation between two dog owners in the famous Parc Monceau triggers a brutal murder in an alley behind the Paris apartment building of expat and private eye Claire Baskerville. Already struggling with the unexpected and rancorous visit of her daughter Catherine—as well as the desperate hunt for one of her missing grandbabies—Claire is reluctant to take the case of the murder of Madame Lavigne until she is brutally shown how vital it is that the elderly dog lover gets justice. Not just for her, and the building they all live in, but for Claire too—and as it turns out, the safety of her whole family.

From fashion to food and their famous je ne sais quoi attitude toward life itself, everybody wants to be French. But a passion can quickly turn into an obsession. The City of Light begins to dim when the body of a teenage girl is discovered floating in the Seine—and then another—and it quickly becomes clear that the Paris police are out of their depth. When the desperate American mother of a newly missing teen comes to beg for Claire’s help to find her troubled daughter before it’s too late, how can Claire say no?

Some things can get a person very burned up. Like a rivalry crepe business in a small village like Chabanel that can only handle one bakery. When the newcomer's crepe kiosk is ransacked and its owner killed, Jules will find her first case as acting village chief of police a veritable hot potato. With the usually unasked for help from les soeurs and an assortment of other villagers, Jules must find the true killer of the rival crepe maker before the village loses its other baker to a murder charge. A village without a baker? Zut alors! Truly the worst thing that could happen to any village in France

They say that yoga will strengthen your core. But only if it doesn’t kill you first. The eighth installment of An American in Paris Mysteries finds Claire facing her most challenging mystery yet with the murder of a popular American yoga instructor. Hired by the head of the Paris Expat Club to solve the murder, Claire is determined to find the killer before anyone else gets hurt. Is this a serial killer? Will working with her boyfriend who is also the new head of the Paris homicide department be a problem? What about her daughter’s stolen frozen eggs? Is Claire’s father really dead? If so, who’s pulling the strings now? And what does he want?

It was the screaming that would haunt all of them forever. When a group of curious teens decide to spend the night in a haunted mansion in 1924 Savannah, they get more than just a few laughs and some thrills. When terrifying screams echo through the mansion in the middle of the night, they flee for their lives—except one of them will never do anything ever again. When amateur detective Georgia Belle is begged by a new neighbor to find her son innocent of the murder of the dead teen, Georgia’s investigation reveals much more than slammed doors and creaking footsteps in a mansion that has always delivered what it promised. She finds an evil which just might already have her in its sights.

Murder travels nicely in this popular mystery series featuring ex-pat Maggie Newberry who lives in France with her vintner French chef husband. Enjoy the sights and smells of Provence, the Côte d'Azur and Paris as Maggie uses her amateur (and very American) sleuthing skills to detect and confront the vilest murderers on the continent! Check out the series for yourself with the the first three books, bundled together and priced at the cost of less than two books at full price! Warning: This series is set in France so do NOT read hungry!