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Authors:
Alexandre Dumas
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Marcel Proust
Victor Hugo
Gustave Flaubert
Jules Verne
Jean-Patrick Manchette

Series:
Aimee Leduc series by Cara Black - first in series is Murder in the Marais
The Paris homicide series by Frédérique Molay - first in series is The 7th Woman
Bruno, Chief of Police series by Martin Walker - first in series is Bruno, Chief of Police
Commissaire Adamsberg series by Fred Vargas - first in series The Chalk Circle Man
Nicholas le Floch series by Jean-François Parot - first in series The Chatelet Apprentice
Winemaker series by Jean-Pierre Alaux - first in series is Treachery in Bordeaux
Brittany series by Jean-Luc Bannalec - first in series is Death in Brittany
Inspector Truchaud by R.M. Cartmel - first in series is The Richebourg Affair
Gilles Sebag series by Philippe Georget - first in series Summertime All the Cats Are Bored
Camille Verhoeven series by Pierre Lemaitre - first in series Irène
Enzo MacLeod by Peter May starting with Extraordinary People
Dimitri Boizot by Patrick Philippart starting with Mortal Ambitions

Books:
All the Light We Cannot See
A Very Long Engagement
The Phantom of the Opera
Code Name Verity
The Black Terrorist
The Beauty and the Beast
To My Daughter In France
Tomorrow to be Brave: A Memoir of the Only Woman Ever to Serve in the French Foreign Legion
For Love of a Rose
Perfume from Provence
The Panda Theory
The Dark Angel
The Day of the Jackal

Publishers Le French book https://www.lefrenchbook.com/ has a number of books to choose from

The Paris Secret by Karen Swan
The Paris Secret by Lily Graham
One Summer in Paris by Sarah Morgan
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness - partially set in France
The Night Gate (The Enzo Files, #7). by Peter May

The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
Suite Française, by Irene Nemirovsky

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (Classic, Literature)

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (Classic, Literature)

The Night Has Teeth by Kat Kruger (YA, Paranormal, werewolves)

Cinder by Marissa Meyer (YA, Fantasy) 1st in series

The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux (Mystery) 1st in series

Syndrome E by Franck Thilliez (Mystery, Thriller)

Irène by Pierre Lemaitre (Mystery)

Codex by Adrian Dawson (Thriller)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon (Mystery) - Paris, Fecamp

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
France, including the towns of Tostes, Yonville, and Rouen

Pascal Garnier wrote a series of novellas that Stephen King fans might especially appreciate

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Mystery) - Saint-Louis

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber (Science Fiction)

The Silent Patient historical fiction
The Secret Keeper historical fiction

A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (Historical Fiction, Mystery, Thriller) - 1137 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Gwytherin, Wales.

The Fog

The Book of Negroes

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

There is a whole series of Maisie Dobbs books. All but two are in England

The Enemy by Charlie Higson (Horror)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Fantasy)

The Inspector and Mrs Jeffries by Emily Brightwell (Mystery)

The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell Fantasy

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (Classic, Paranormal)

Soulless by Gail Carriger (Sci-Fi, Fantasy)

The Witches by Roald Dahl

A Siege of Bitterns by Steve Burrows (Mystery) - Norfolk County (Saltmarsh)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Historical Fiction) - London

The Girl Without Skin by Mads Peder Nordbo (Mystery, Thriller) 1st in series

The Tenant by Katrine Engberg (Mystery) - Copenhagen

The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbøl (Mystery, Thriller)

The Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg (Mystery, Thriller) Fjällbacka, Sweden

The Exception by Christian Jungersen (Mystery, Thriller) - Copenhagen

The Department Q series by Jussi Adler-Olsen. First book The Keeper of Lost Causes

Denmark
The Chestnut Man

Sweden:

Mari Jungstedt's Anders Knutas series
Johan Theorin

Denmark:
Number the Stars

Greenland:
An African in Greenland (also Togo and France)
The Day is Dark

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell (Mystery, Thriller) 1st in a series

Before the Frost by Henning Mankell (Mystery) 1st in break-off series

Sun Storm by Åsa Larsson (Mystery)

Denmark:

Grendel by John Gardner (Fantasy)

The Dinosaur Feather by S.J. Gazan (Mystery

Bogman by R.I. Olufsen (Mystery)

Three Dog Night by Elsebeth Egholm (Mystery)

AND

Dead Souls by Elsebeth Egholm (Mystery) I think these 2 can be read as standalones

Liechtenstein

Holland House by Marie Henriette Norberte Liechtenstein ( (Classic)

The Naked Countess of Liechtenstein by John Colleton (Erotica)

Ludmila and the Lonely by Paul Gallico (Short stories)

Switzerland:

The Pledge by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Crime, Mystery, Thriller)

Smiley's People by John le Carré (Espionage, Spy Thriller) Also set in Paris, London & Germany

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Classic, Fiction) Also set in Prague

I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch (Classic, Fiction)

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho (Contemporary, Fiction, Romance)

The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian (Espionage, Mystery, Spy Thriller) 1st in series

Dead Centre by Andy McNab (Military, Suspense, Thriller) #14 in series

A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman (Mystery, Spy Thriller) #4 in series

Damnation by Peter Beck (Thriller)

The Fear Index by Robert Harris (Fiction, Mystery, Thriller)

Small World by Martin Suter (Fiction)

Command Authority by Tom Clancy (Espionage, Spy Thriller) #9 in series

The Last Weynfeldt

Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Spy Trap A lot of it is set in Switzerland

The Night Manager by John le Carré (Thriller) - Zurich

The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (Horror) Switzerland

Heidi

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Horror, Sci-Fi) {Also set in Switzerland & Scotland}

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Classic, Science Fiction) 1945 Dresden, GE

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Classic, Historical Fiction) 1914, Also set in 1918 France

The Quiet Twin and The Crooked Maid - - set in Vienna before and after WW II, respectively, they contain many of the same characters.

Man's Search for Meaning

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson