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Deals: Catch up before new book comes out

For those who want to catch up on the Winemaker Detective series before the new book comes out, we are running some deals on Amazon. Check it out. Click the pictures.

Book Lover's Remedy to Overworking

We recommend escaping into a story. And this week, we are participating in a cross-promotional giveaway. It's easy. It's free. Click the below button and you'll land on a page full of free mysteries and thrillers. Take your pick. About midway down, you'll find Frédérique Molay's Paris Homicide series prequel: Vital Links. Now is as good a time as any to get it and enjoy.

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Coping with Success and Failure

As in life, when you write a novel, at some point you will publish it, and then, you face either success or failure. David Khara, author of the Consortium thriller series, enjoyed instant success in France. Here, he shares some thoughts on coping. His advice applies to many endeavors.

You’ve been brave, you fought against yourself, against the odds, against those who told it would never happen, and here it is at last: your book is there, in front of you. It will be sold very soon, online or i...

Cops and Writers

Laurent Guillaume is a multiple-award-winning French writer and former police officer. In law enforcement, he worked anti-gang, narcotics, financial crimes, and served in Mali as an advisor to the local police. His first novel to be translated into English is a hard-boiled PI story set in West Africa: White Leopard . Here he tells us about how his life as a cop mixes with his life as a writer.

Does being a cop help to write a mystery novel?
It is both an asset and toxic. My novels necessarily bo...

The Truth About Writing Partnerships

Eric Giacometti and Jacques Ravenne  are the bestselling French authors of the Antoine Marcas mysteries (over 2 million copies sold worldwide). These high-action thrillers combine meticulous historical research with unusual plots and a compellingly complex hero. We asked the writing duo what it's really like.

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It’s a curious experience, one that requires organization… and diplomacy. We take about nine months to write a novel: one month for the outline, two months of research...

The Modern Rules of Espionage

Our catalog has a couple of smart, modern spy thrillers by former top-level French intelligence officer and award-winning thriller writer Bernard Besson. His team of freelance operatives must unravel the consequences of global warming on the geopolitical landscape and discover the intricacy of high-frequency online trading. They struggle to maintain their independence where the loyalties of official agencies are not so clear and corruption and political machinations are everywhere.

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Exclusive, limited-time offer — Vital Links

After Looking to the Woods, Frédérique Molay has now produced a prequel to the Paris Homicide series. It's called Vital Links and for now it is only available for free. We will be selling it soon, so don't miss this chance to get the ebook. 

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Vital Links by Frédérique Molay
A prequel to the Paris Homicide series

A detective’s dogged quest for the truth reveals more than he bargained for. Newly appointed to lead a squad at the elite Paris Criminal Investigation Division, Nico Sirs...

Paris Book Fair and Paperback

Frédérique Molay's story has something truly special. Her first published novel took France by storm when she won the Prix du Quai des Orfèvre—this is The 7th Woman, which we were so very proud to count among our first titles. She then wrote Crossing the Line and The City of Blood. However, after that, for reasons beyond her control and related to the occasionally obscure world of publishing, she lost her French publisher, and almost stopped writing altogether. 

I told her to send me the manus...

The End of an Era? Paris Police Headquarters Moving

“Paris had its birth, as the reader knows, in that old island of the City which has the form of a cradle,” Victor Hugo wrote in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This very island in the center of the city has held a number of key institutions, including the Palais de Justice (central court house) and the Police Headquarters, at 36 Quai des Orfèvres, setting for all of the Paris Homicide mysteries (and before that for Simenon's Maigret mysteries). Both the courts and the police headquarters are bei...

Pre-launch Paris Homicide Mystery Giveaway

We're getting very excited about the upcoming release of the new Paris Homicide mystery by Frédérique Molay. We translated it, and Amazon Publishing in both France and the US are publishing, with a simultaneous release in both countries on January 17! We can't wait.

In the mean time, check out this pre-launch giveaway on Goodreads. Don't miss your chance to win one of 100 ebooks.

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