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The Dummies’ Guide to French Thrillers

What exactly is a French thriller? Is it different than an American thriller? Does it have dark humor? A je ne sais quoi in the plot twists?

As the founder of Le French Book—we are specialized in mysteries and thrillers from France—I wanted to get to the bottom of this question. So I went to a French specialist of all things noir and thrilleresque, the blogger Claude Le Nocher.

The thriller label

He began by explaining that the French started using the label “thriller” to boost the sales of what...

More wine plus crime – cover reveal

As we are busy preparing another translation in the Winemaker Detective series, here is a sneak preview of the cover for the third book. The 22-book (yes, it’s 22 now) series—now in its fourth season on French television—offers an immersion into French gourmet attitude with some sleuthing on the side.

In this third book in the series,Nightmare in Burgundy, the Winemaker Detective leaves his native Bordeaux for a dream wine-tasting trip in Burgundy, France’s other key wine region. Between Beaun...

Is the world ready for hybrid translators?

“Hybrid” is a new buzzword in the publishing industry—there are hybrid authors, hybrid publishers, hybrid markets. So now is the timefor hybrid translators too.

Recently, in this blog, we’ve been talking about what “digital-first” really means. For us, it’s more than just publishing e-books in addition to print books, it’s everything digital, including social media, online presence, exploring new printing solutions, and looking forward to where content will go in the future.

This is just one as...

More print rights…It’s all about good stories

Here at Le French Book, we believe that readers are more interested in stories than in formats.Our job as a publisher is to make those stories available however we can, to the widest possible audience. E-books are only one step.

After recently announcing that wesecured print rights forThe Paris Lawyerby Sylvie Granotier, we have also negotiated those rights for two other of its other initial mysteries and thrillers from France. For us, the different formats feed each other and build a dynamic....

Cover reveal: Grand Cru Heist

Check out the cover for our next Winemaker Detective novel: The Grand Cru Heist.

Serious gourmet attitude

Who doesn’t start dreaming when they read about the countryside of Médoc covered with a blanket of morning fog? Add some crime, a renowned wine critic and vintner with a handsome sidekick and readers get a whodunit immersed in France and French gourmet attitude.

TheWinemaker Detective seriesby Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen delves into the underworld of a global luxury industry, where ther...

Complete Collection of Short Stories by Top Writers Now Available

Who ever said the French have no sense of humor? As proof of the contrary, we just released the complete collection of those highly entertaining short stories by seven of France’s literary giants:52 Serial Shorts. Now you can get them all in one ebook.

Get the 52 Serial Shorts – The Complete Collection

Short stories by top writers

In this collection,Tatiana de Rosnay, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Yann Queffélec, Daniel Picouly, Christine Orban, Irène Frain, and Harold Cobertgot together to play a coll...

A book is a book is a book

Our regular followers know that here at Le French Book, not only are we obsessed with French mystery novels, but from the beginning, we have emphasized the “first” in “digital-first.” For Le French Book, there is no paper versus digital war: both formats are complementary and serve different (and sometimes even the same) readers. Fabrice Neuman, co-founder and CTO, says, “Our goal is to expand a book’s reach, not choose between different formats. A book is a book is a book, whatever form and...

Summer Reruns – Tomatoes and All

Yet another post in the summer rerun series. Find out what tomatoes have to do with Le French Book.

This post appeared on July 14 at theUnconventional Librarian blog. Thanks Pam for the opportunity. I wrote it late June, when the season’s first tomatoes appeared at the market.

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Madame Tomate

Today is a happy day. After weeks of rain and cold, finally, at our weekly open-air market in the center of our little town here in southwest France, my all-time favorite veggie monger ha...

Glimpses of France in Fiction

In the France-is-on-vacation rerun series, here’s another guest post I wrote for another blog. Here’s one that seems summery enough, with scenes from France.

This post first appeared in the France Village Diaries blog.

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Glimpses of France in Fiction

When Jacqui asked me to write a post for French Village Diaries, I thought it would be fun to share glimpses of France from the books I’ve most recently translated into English. I love mysteries and crime fiction, and all three o...

Really French? Living in France

OK everyone, it is well known that France is on vacation in July and August. I thought I’d do like they do on the radio, and do some reruns for the summer. I’ll be running some guest post I wrote for some other blogs. Please do click through to visit these blogs and find out more about what they do.

Here’s a post that appeared on June 26 at the Unconventional Librarian blog. Thanks Pam for the opportunity.

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Really French? An Interview

Just the other day, Pam asked readers of...