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1) The portrait
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Language
English
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Journeying to a remote French island to sit for a portrait that is painted by his tormented artist friend, an influential London art critic recalls the early years of their friendship, and his own influence over aspiring artists.
2) Grave mercy
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Series
His fair assassin volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
3) Dark triumph
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Series
His fair assassin volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy"--
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Language
English
Description
Marianne is stuck in a loveless, unhappy marriage. After forty-one years, she has reached her limit, and one evening in Paris she decides to take action. Following a dramatic moment on the banks of the Seine, Marianne leaves her life behind and sets out for the coast of Brittany, also known as "the end of the world." Here she meets a cast of colorful and unforgettable locals who surprise her with their warm welcome, and the natural ease they all seem...
5) Blowback
Author
Series
Enzo files volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On a tiny island off the coast of Brittany in France, Enzo must confront the hostility of locals who have no desire to see a cold-case murder back in the headlines.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Description
1792. Claudie Durand's future will be to take over the family inn, watch her sister, Mathilde, married off to the butcher's son, and live out her days alone. When the Army of the Republic seizes their small village in Brittany during the revolution, Claudie finds herself at the center of the conspiracy. Now she and Mathilde must flee their sheltered life and take up a cause that had always seemed like a distant conflict. Their mission for the resistance:...
Author
Series
Queen's man mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Justin de Quincy is drawn into a conspiracy when he investigates a forged document that implicates Prince John in a plot to kill his brother King Richard, a scheme that also endangers the woman Justin serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jean-Luc Bannalec's fourth novel in the Commissaire Dupin series. It's picturesque, suspenseful, and the next best thing to a trip to Brittany. Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a stubborn elderly film actress discovers a corpse. By the time Commissaire Dupin arrives at the scene, the body has disappeared. A little while later, he receives a phone...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Based on one of the Lais of Marie de France, The Wolf Hunt is a breathtaking adventure that showcases, once again, Gillian Bradshaws talent as both a historian and as a novelist. When Marie Penthièvre of Chalendrey is abducted from her Norman priory and taken to Brittanys court, she vows never to dishonor her familys ties by marrying a Breton brute. There is only one man who might change her mind: Tiarnán of Talensac, a handsome,...
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