Apprentice pastry chef Mélanie does not mind being haunted by her many times great-grandfather, Antonin Carème. But when the vengeful ghost of Carème's apprentice appears and begins to threaten her girlfriend, the stakes are raised, and ice-cream becomes a much more dangerous business than Mélanie had ever imagined.Best Served Cold is a novelette of approximately 9,500 words.

If aliens made you an offer you couldn’t refuse, would you still wager everything on your faith? What price would you pay to save your city? Can the last member of a doomed church find hope once again?Since the original 2016 anthology, Mysterion has carried readers to settings strange and wonderful with stories about the challenges of belief, about characters struggling to understand worlds that cannot make sense—and, when that fails, to be true to their convictions, to ho...

Dedicated to Mrs. Cabanes for her kindness and hospitality.In a pithy, humorous memoir, the author recounts from her letters, the most vivid experiences of her student days as an assistant at a School in Albi, Southern France. 1969/70.

A charming restaurantA book and its mysterious authorA little secretA romantic meetingParis and all its magic . . .Cyrano de Bergerac meets Chocolat and Amélie in this intelligent, charming, and entertaining publishing sensation from Europe.While in the midst of a breakup-induced depression, Aurélie Bredin, a beautiful Parisian restaurateur, discovers an astonishing novel in a quaint bookshop on the Ile Saint-Lo...

"This book made me and my kids cry with laughter. Our favourite one was Excuse 32." ★★★★★*"This book has a quirky sense of humour that will no doubt appeal to fans of Wimpy Kid, Barry Loser and David Walliams. There are 49 interesting excuses including illustrations that range from slightly silly to completely outrageous. Even though I am an adult, I did smile a few times while reading this!"*★★★★★Do you hate tidying your bedroom? Stupid questi...

The bestselling French phenomenon, winner of the Prix Lion Noir, now available in English for the first time...When Madame Préau returns to her own house outside Paris after several years spent in a convalescent home, she immediately notices that the neighborhood has changed. Now, instead of a beautiful garden next door there is a new house. And she can see directly into her new neighbors' windows.Madame Préau quickly feels that something isn't right. Her neighbors have two...

From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: The 1st book in a Culinary Cozy Mystery Series that take you on a tour of Paris! Includes 5 Special French Macaron Recipes.French native Clémence Damour returns to Paris to run the family patisserie, a famous franchise known for their delectable gourmet pastries and sweets in Paris and around the world. To get off on the right foot ...

From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: The culinary mystery series that take you on a tour of Paris! Includes French Croissant Recipes.After Clémence Damour's last adventure, the paparazzi are following her everywhere. Her ex-boyfriend Mathieu, a talented painter, contacts her to help him with a bizarre ghost mystery, putting a strain on her current relationship with Arthur. Then Mathieu's girlfriend Charlotte is...

From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: The culinary mystery series that take you on a tour of Paris! Includes Crème Brûlée RecipesWhen Clémence Damour celebrates her birthday at her family's flagship patisserie in the 16th arrondissement, one of her guests will be dead by the end of the night. Was it really a suicide or was the victim murdered by one of the other guests at the party?If you like light-hearted cozy mysteries with recipes by Joanne F...

From 3x USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin: The 3rd book in the culinary mystery series that take you on a tour of Paris! Includes French Bread + French Dish RecipesWhen Clémence Damour and her best friend Rose return from a weekend spa retreat in Switzerland, they discover Rose's boyfriend Pierre's dead body in the kitchen. By the hardness of the half-eaten baguette on the table, Clémence announces that he has been dead for ...

Starting life in the gutter, Jean-Marie d'Aumout rises through the ranks of eighteenth-century French society propelled by his wits and an obsession with finding the perfect taste. But beyond the palace walls, revolution is in the air and the country is clamouring with a hunger of a different kind.

January 1774Commissioner Le Floch's lover, socialite Julie de Lastérieux, is found murdered in her bed, a victim of poisoning.Nicolas retains the confidence of those closest to him, and is even sent by Louis XV to London on a secret mission. But a plot is afoot to implicate Le Floch in Julie 's death, and he faces the toughest challenge of his career as he fights to clear his name and bring the real murderer to justice.