#Paris in July: The Occupation Trilogy by Patrick Modiano (1968-72)

This July as we celebrate all things French, here's a description of another July in Paris: July is the fireworks season. A whole world, on the brink of extinction, was sending up one last flurry of sparks beneath the foliage and the paper lanterns. People jostled each other, they spoke in loud voices, laughed, pinched …

Earthshaker: The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico (1969)

There are minor spoilers in this post so please consider yourself warned. Then why did hope persist? Why this upward striving, this eternal climbing by himself and these ill-assorted people, castaways in a floating tomb, the odds on whose chances for rescue were astronomical? A group of people, herded together because of some natural calamity …

Tuesday Night Bloggers: The Sixth Simenon Omnibus

Georges Simenon, was a prolific Belgian author, most famous for his fictional commissaire of Paris' Brigade Criminelle, Jules Maigret. However, he also wrote many books which did not feature Maigret.The Sixth Simenon Omnibus contains three novels which discuss the role that sex has in people's lives - whether as a way of exhibiting their power …

Forgotten Book: The Man Above Suspicion by James Mayo

Joanna Dunlop reaches London from Paris with her father. The two had gone to France as Joanna's father who is in the Ministry of Agriculture had a seminar to attend. The plane makes a hard landing and London's weather is gloomy. However, soon after checking into a hotel, Joanna is on her way to have …