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Secrets of the Maison Fournier
(2026)(The first book in the Belle Epoque Bookshop Mystery series)
A novel by Amelia Pine
Paris, 1888. The city glitters. The secrets run deep.
American bookseller Emma Greene came to the Latin Quarter for books, coffee, and a quietly extraordinary life among the artists, exiles, and eccentrics who drift through her small English-language shop. She did not come to Paris to become a murder suspect.
But when the powerful and widely despised owner of the Maison Fournier department store is found dead, and suspicion falls on Emma with suspicious speed, she discovers that Parisian society has very little patience for foreign women who ask inconvenient questions.
She asks them anyway.
To clear her name, Emma must navigate a city of glittering facades and hidden rot: the department store's labyrinthine politics, the Latin Quarter's tangle of loyalties, and the gaslit drawing rooms where Belle Époque Paris decides who matters and who doesn't. Her allies are not what Parisian society would consider respectable: a penniless artist who notices everything, a French bookseller who wears trousers, smokes openly, and takes counsel from her opinionated parrot, and a landlady who considers minding other people's business both her right and her calling. And then there is Inspector Lefèvre of the Sûreté, guarded and precise and deeply reluctant to admit that Emma might be onto something, who becomes something considerably more complicated.
The truth about Maison Fournier runs darker than Emma expected. And someone very powerful would prefer she stop looking.
In a city this beautiful, the deadliest things are always the best hidden.
Secrets of the Maison Fournier is a richly atmospheric Belle Époque mystery perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn, Tasha Alexander, and Rhys Bowen. Packed with gaslit Paris atmosphere, a razor-sharp heroine, an unforgettable cast of Latin Quarter misfits, and a slow-burn detective romance that builds with every chapter.
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American bookseller Emma Greene came to the Latin Quarter for books, coffee, and a quietly extraordinary life among the artists, exiles, and eccentrics who drift through her small English-language shop. She did not come to Paris to become a murder suspect.
But when the powerful and widely despised owner of the Maison Fournier department store is found dead, and suspicion falls on Emma with suspicious speed, she discovers that Parisian society has very little patience for foreign women who ask inconvenient questions.
She asks them anyway.
To clear her name, Emma must navigate a city of glittering facades and hidden rot: the department store's labyrinthine politics, the Latin Quarter's tangle of loyalties, and the gaslit drawing rooms where Belle Époque Paris decides who matters and who doesn't. Her allies are not what Parisian society would consider respectable: a penniless artist who notices everything, a French bookseller who wears trousers, smokes openly, and takes counsel from her opinionated parrot, and a landlady who considers minding other people's business both her right and her calling. And then there is Inspector Lefèvre of the Sûreté, guarded and precise and deeply reluctant to admit that Emma might be onto something, who becomes something considerably more complicated.
The truth about Maison Fournier runs darker than Emma expected. And someone very powerful would prefer she stop looking.
In a city this beautiful, the deadliest things are always the best hidden.
Secrets of the Maison Fournier is a richly atmospheric Belle Époque mystery perfect for fans of Deanna Raybourn, Tasha Alexander, and Rhys Bowen. Packed with gaslit Paris atmosphere, a razor-sharp heroine, an unforgettable cast of Latin Quarter misfits, and a slow-burn detective romance that builds with every chapter.
If you love...
- historical mysteries where the setting feels as alive as the characters
a heroine who is clever, stubborn, and entirely too curious for her own good
slow-burn romance between two people who are both too proud to admit it
found families made of outcasts, eccentrics, and one very opinionated parrot
Belle Époque society, the glamour, the rot, and everything underneath
...Emma Greene's Paris is waiting for you.
Book 1 in the Belle Époque Bookshop Mysteries by Amelia Pine
Genre: Historical Mystery
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