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March 7, 2013
Paris on the Edge of Your Seat Book Giveaway
Don’t miss our first Goodreads book giveaway. We’re happy to announce an exclusive print edition giveaway for the Paris-based police proceduralThe 7th Woman,by Frédérique Molay. We’re giving away ten copies of a (very) limited paperback edition of the book. Spread the word. The giveaway lasts until April 2.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The 7th Woman
by Frédérique Molay
Giveaway ends April 02, 2013.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
Experience Paris on the edge of your seat
There’s no rest...
March 5, 2013
99-cent E-book Collection – Short Stories by Top Authors
One the lookout for a good read? A quick read? A short dive into another imaginary world? The first volume of our52 Serial Shorts collection of weird and wonderful short stories is now available.
Tatiana de Rosnay, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Yann Queffélec, Daniel Picouly, Christine Orban, Irène Frain, and Harold Cobert got together to play a collaborative writing game called “cadavres exquis” (“delicious corpses”). One started a story and passed it on until all the authors had contributed. The re...
February 26, 2013
Mangas, melting ice caps and industrial espionage
We are thrilled to have world-acclaimed translator Julie Rose on board, translating Greenland: The Thriller, by Bernard Besson. She has had a long and illustrious career translating French classics (over 30 books and plays to date). This is her first thriller, unless you count Les Misérables, which Rose considers one of the first great detective novels of our time. Here’s what she says about Greenland.
“I’m a thriller addict. But they have to be really well written. This is one I couldn’t put...
February 20, 2013
Genre fiction: a good story is a good story
“It’s the kind of thriller we love, with chase scenes and all the espionage you can ask for. A fun read you would be wrong to pass up.” This is how the French blog Le Concièrge Masqué describesThe Bleiberg Project. Richard, who runs the blog, ran an interview of David Khara, the book’s author, and I’m happy to share an excerpt of it here, in which David talks about genre fiction and his writing.
How did you get started writing thrillers?
I didn’t make a conscious decision to write thrillers. Wh...
February 15, 2013
Murder in a cellar with sushi and wine
Direct from Paris, three of the Serial Shorts Gang–Harold Cobert, Irène Frain and Tatiana de Rosnay–talk about delicious corpses (cadavres exquis), translation andwriting 52 short stories together for52 Serial Shorts. Tatiana reads a short excerpt, too.
February 8, 2013
Author News Roundup
What are our authors up to these days? Here’s a quick news round-up.
Sylvie Granotier’s sequel to The Paris Lawyer was released in France under the titleLa Place des Morts.
Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen announced the next in the Winemaker Detective series that will come out in French in spring. It will be set in Châteauneuf du Pape. Mmmm……
Frédérique Molay is busy working on the fourth book in the Nico Sirsky, Chief of Police series. I wonder what will happen?
Tatiana de Rosnay is working on f...
January 31, 2013
Woohoo! Le French Book®
It’s official. Le French Book is now Le French Book®. We received the Official Certificate of Registration of the trademark.
January 29, 2013
Could secret human experiments be carried out worldwide?
Find out in a “brilliant,” “captivating” thriller that will soon be in English. If you like action-packed Robert Ludlum-like stories, you’ll like this new addition to our lists. It’s a prize-winning spy novel that took France by storm reaping in superlatives: “Spellbinding,” “exceptional,” staggering,” “fascinating,” “astounding.” The book has sold over 100,000 copies already and catapulted its author into the ranks of the country’s top thriller writers.
We will launch our thriller collection...
January 24, 2013
Bullet Points: Writing Secrets
Looking for some inspiration? Here are a few writing secrets from Frédérique Molay, a bestselling author of the Nico Sirsky mystery series set in Paris. The list of praise for these suspense novels is long. She’s been called the French Michael Connelly and won France most prestigious crime fiction award, her first-in-seriesThe 7th Womanwas named Best Crime Fiction Novel of the Year; it is an international bestseller. What better person to talk about how to write?
Write regularly. Like so many...
January 22, 2013
Tasting wine and writing mystery novels
We asked a few questions to Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen, the authors of the Winemaker Detective series, a long-running series of made-for-TV detective novels focused on the world of winemaking and wine tasting. Each book in the series is as much a wine novel as it is a whodunit. As they say, each book in the series is, in fact, both a mystery novel and a wine tasting, the discovery of a region, a wine and the people who make it. The first in the series,Treachery in Bordeaux, is available...
