This is a study of faction, lynching, murder, terror and counter-terror during the French Revolution. It examines factionalism in small towns like Aubagne near Marseille, and how this produced the murders and prison massacres of 1795-8. Another major theme is the convergence of lynching from below with official Terror from above. Although the Terror may have been designed to solve a national emergency in the spring of 1793, in southern France it permitted one faction to continue a struggle against its enemies, a struggle that had begun earlier over local issues like taxation and governance. It uses the techniques of micro-history to tell the story of the small town of Aubagne. It then extends the scope to places nearby like Marseille, Arles, and Aix-en-Provence. Along the way, it illuminates familiar topics like the activity of Clubs and revolutionary tribunals and then explores largely unexamined areas like lynching, the sociology of faction, the emergence of theories of violent fraternal democracy, and the nature of the White Terror.

When her sister dies, Atlanta copywriter Maggie Newberry flies to the south of France to find the little niece that no one in the family even knew existed. Along the way, she finds handsome sexy Frenchman Laurent Dernier to help with the search. Meanwhile, her sister’s murderer sets his sights on the little girl—and Maggie.

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.

This book takes you further into the sleepy little village of St-Buvard where Maggie and Laurent discover not one but four murders to spice up their tenure in Provence. A year spent living in the south of France is not all it’s cracked up to be—especially when you have no job, a prickly first year of marriage, and your new best friend is murdered virtually before your eyes. Maggie Newberry is determined to help the investigations into the murders even if the incredibly sexy and too available French police detective on the case can only complicate her life in every possible way. Murder in Provence is set in the ancient city of Arles and, like all the books in the series, showcases the sights and mouthwatering cuisine of Provence—with a spicy dash of murder.

From bouillabaisse to betrayal… …and the beautiful city that is home to both When the dead body of one of Marseille’s most corrupt politicians is found stuffed in Maggie’s car trunk it creates a bubbling stew of deception, betrayal and revenge. Is there a connection between the victim and Maggie? Her family? Or is this a message for Laurent as a result of his nefarious history of crime and misdeeds? Even worse, a devastating family secret that Laurent and Maggie have spent the last twelve years hiding is shockingly revealed to the world, putting everything they have—as well as everyone they love—in immediate jeopardy. This heart-stopping thrill ride takes you through the menacing back streets of Marseille in Maggie’s determined trajectory toward the truth—and the truly evil—behind it.

When a high ranking American politician is murdered in the bed of a young sex worker, the US embassy and the Paris police make fast work of its obvious political implications and blanket the case. It never made the papers or social media. When the politician’s daughter Madeleine comes to Claire and Jean-Marc—now working together—to beg them to find the truth about her father’s death, they know they must help. In the process they discover a harrowing secret that many powerful people will do anything to hide—including the murder of a young American woman determined to get justice for her father.